This is the growing movement for closer ties between Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, the so-called CANZUK nations. A Change.org petition calling for bureaucracy-free movement between those 4 nations recently gained over 100,000 signatures in a few months without any financial backing or big names in support. Boris Johnson, the flamboyant ex-mayor of London, and now victorious leader of the Leave movement in the Brexit referendum, has endorsed CANZUK free movement as a near term goal.As Boris Johnson is the likely next Prime Minister of the U.K., his support adds weight to this proposal. If this begins to sound like the nucleus of an Anglosphere organization, it's an idea we've found attractive for many reasons.
As a superior alternative to the European Union, such a confederation would be a globe-spanning advanced technological, economic and military power bigger than Germany or Japan, and whose 4 members have individually been Americas most constant and capable allies. Unlike many so-called “allies”, when America has asked for help, these usually have shown up with soldiers, ships and planes. If such a plan went ahead, America could end up with the kind of partner it had always hoped the EU would be but which never showed up in reality.
The center of gravity of a CANZUK organization, however, might not be in the U.K. but perhaps in Australia. I'm not sure the English are ready for that eventuality, or for En Zed's disinterest in matters military.
