05-01-2020, 03:13 AM
The same New Zealand that prospered by trading with their closest neighbours? Who, as part of ANZAC, adopt EU regulations resulting in lower barriers to trade in most of the world? EU regulations that we used to have a primary role in forming and a major vote in finalising? Now, instead of being leaders in dictating regulations we will have to adopt the regulations of others without any say whatsoever*. We're going to become followers rather than leaders.
* we can still have our say but only through lobbying other EU states to speak on our behalf. We won't be able to lobby on our own behalf. We become beggars not choosers.
Whatever happened to NZ almost 50 years ago is completely irrelevant today, unless you believe that we should punish ourselves as a nation for that. The world changed, we were no longer head of an empire. Nations continued to form economic alliances and the largest of those to this day is the EU.
* we can still have our say but only through lobbying other EU states to speak on our behalf. We won't be able to lobby on our own behalf. We become beggars not choosers.
Whatever happened to NZ almost 50 years ago is completely irrelevant today, unless you believe that we should punish ourselves as a nation for that. The world changed, we were no longer head of an empire. Nations continued to form economic alliances and the largest of those to this day is the EU.