Some of these fantasists have the idea of re-creating the British Empire: pointing for instance to New Zealand, long regarded as practically an exclave of the UK, where the cops wore a variant of London Met uniforms for many years. Surely we could re-create the good old days, they insist. Little do they realise that New Zealand has been trying to get as close as possible to the EU in more recent times and that if push came to shove . . . well . . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand%E2%80%93European_Union_relations