CANZUK proposes closer economic, travel and security ties between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The idea has been discussed since 2015 by think tanks and politicians seeking post-Brexit opportunities. Trade between the four countries already exceeds £100 billion annually under existing agreements.
Voters here delivered a rout, not a debate: 23 yes to 5 no, an idea usually confined to think-tank pamphlets and post-Brexit wish-lists finding overwhelming favour among those who bothered to vote on it. Margins this wide are rare on refnation, and this one carried across the whole spread of ages rather than sitting on one generation's enthusiasm.
The 25-34 bracket supplied the bulk of the vote (12) and still came in at 75% yes, while every other age group with more than a handful of votes ran even higher, including a clean sweep among the 16-24s and the over-65s. There is no generational fault line to speak of here, which is unusual for anything touching Britain's post-2016 international identity — usually the split between younger internationalists and older sovereigntists is the whole story, but on CANZUK it simply evaporates.
Gender is the only place a wobble appears, though the female sample is just two voters and too thin to read as anything more than noise; the 17 men who gave a gender split ran 76% yes, in line with the rest of the chamber. If there is a message in this vote, it is less "Leave versus Remain" than a shared, cross-generational nostalgia for Anglosphere ties as compensation for looser ones with Brussels.
A rare case where the chamber found almost nothing to argue about.
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