Several things about Canzuk. First, it's miles away from getting off the ground and the UK will be long gone from the EU before anything significant can be set up, and, by then, brexit will have turned us into a very unattractive basket case with whom you will want to do only limited business. Second, manufactured goods is a small part of our economy. We haven't got much that you'd really want. We'd be a net importer, and, with the best will in the world when you look at the countries included, we'd still have to buy the bulk of what would then be our tariff-stricken goods that we need from outside the block. The financial services sector is four-fifths of our economy, and a good deal of it is currently tied up with the EU with whom we currently enjoy a cracking good deal. Let's hear your suggestions as to how that can be untangled then reconnected to a setup that is supposed to be a competitor of the EU. Third, it's a bloody long way from the UK to Canuckistan to Oz to NZ... Fourth, the EU currently adds up to half a billion people and, if I got my arse in gear, I could be nattering to any one of 'em face to face in about twelve hours from now (it's late, no-can-fly late...). Canzuk can't get anywhere near that number. Size isn't everything, I suppose...

Sounds to me like an mini-EU with every country in it half a globe away from every other. Anyone for edicts from unelected bureaucrats in Wollongong?

And no-one mentions China and India. Let's have a referendum about it, I say.