A CANZUK Comment

 

The Anglophone West Indies

There is continuing turmoil in Northern Ireland over the border, now that the UK has left the EU. 

My solution is to unify Ireland on condition that it join CANZUK as a fifth member—free trade zone, integrated military, freedom of movement. The Northern Irish could have their cake and eat it too.

It also seems to me that an integrated West Indies also belongs in the pact. Individually the islands are too small to be equal partners, and indeed too small to be economically viable, but unified they would be about 4.5 million people and another arm of the Anglosphere. The opportunities offered by the larger union might be incentive for them to come together.