Airbus to leave UK if there's no deal

[Mordac]

The undemocratic elected MPs using the first past the post system
The unelected members of the house of lords
The unelected head of state
Blue passports printed in France
operation stack 24/7
High unemployment
Taking control over a border over which you already had control
Stopping immigration form the EU and encourage that from the Common Wealth
Worse trade deals than the ones you had before
Overruling devolved parliaments
JRM as PM

That is what sovereignty is al about

If it means better I'll take it all day long...

[meridian]

Airbus to leave UK if there's no deal

Do you think New Zealand have forgiven us for joining the EU in the first place?

Their lost trade with the UK when that happened, nearly bankrupted them.

That was 40 years ago, and the issues at the time were worldwide anyway - carless days during the oil crisis, etc. It was a shock to be sure, and NZ spent the next couple of decades trying to find a relationship that worked (USA to start with which was fine under ANZUS it went a bit sour in the mid 1980s when NZ went nuclear-free and didn’t allow US warships to dock, and then leaning towards Asia and especially Japan and S Korea for trade in the 80s and 90s). The Iraq war was the first war that NZ didn’t automatically follow the U.K. into (even during the Falklands the NZ territorial army was on standby for callup).

Even with all that though, there’s still an uproar if they try and take Corrie off the tv and the recent vote on the flag kept the Jack there.

It’s more of a business relationship now, rather than a fawning “Mother Country” one.