It's often said that 24 hours is a long time in politics. Well the past week has been a political lifetime for the United Kingdom with the unraveling of its 43-year love affair with Europe. Not only that, within a few days of Brexiting, the country's soccer team was booted out of the Euro 2016 tournament after a shock loss to the minnow Iceland.

Now as a gesture of goodwill, more like a possible pocket lining, we're extending the olive branch to Britain to show there are no hard feelings for them for turning their backs on us in 1973 and joining the European Community. Even the Brexit baron Nigel Farage has apologised for their treatment of us.

We're stepping up to the mark though, offering them the best of our trade negotiators who'll presumably help them unravel their trade agreements, negotiated mostly by the European Union on their behalf, with their 550 trade negotiators compared with just 40 now working for the UK.

And we've already snuggled up to the British High Commissioner here offering to "symbolically" open our trade doors to a free trade agreement, with the Beehive rather disingenuously saying we stand ready to be useful in any way we can be, when in reality they mean, providing there's a butter buck in it for us.

But it was John Key buttering up to his Aussie cobber Malcolm Turnbull, who he's endorsed, that sounded a death knell in Winston Peters' head. Peters reckons Key currently has the Midas touch in reverse when it comes to backing winners, citing the recent flag change referendum and the backing of his now lame duck buddy David Cameron in his failed bid to remain in Europe, to name just a few fails.

He's advising Key to stay right out of any more interference in the Aussie election in advance of the vote there tomorrow, saying if he runs true to his recent form, relations with Canberra and the new Labour Government there, will be an uphill struggle.

Fortunately the PM hasn't taken a position yet on the outcome of the American Presidential contest even if Donald Trump, on his three handicap, would provide him with more competition on the golf course than his buddy Barack Obama ever would, and besides there'd certainly be no shortage of free-of-charge golf courses for them to play on.