Owen Hatherley Repeater Books, 2022
En route to the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit referendum, ‘Leave’ campaigners combined wild financial promises – notably the £350 million pounds per week the UK would redirect from the European Union to the National Health Service – and invocations of former British greatness. The pledges of prosperity and appeals to nostalgia were synthesised in a proposed economic and geo-political alliance of the UK with three of its former ‘dominions’, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – ‘CANZUK’, for short. The idea
