Well yeah. I support them joining. But.....
The idiots left of their own volition. No more handouts and special privileges. Join as any other nation and follow the same fucking rules. You left on a high horse and came crawling back. You could not appreciate your special deal so you are not worthy of getting another one. Just like any other nation now.
As a uk resident i agree, but dont forget the vote eas win by only 2% and a lot of us didnt want to leave
I know. I was baffled that they actually went for it with such a split vote.
Many people that voted for it were sold on the lie that the money saved would go towards the NHS but that never happened because it was never actually about helping the British people.
Politicians lying?.?🧐🧐
I am baffled truly.
Especially conservative politicians... The undisputed kings of evidence based policy.
Wasn't the money saved a negative number? And that then went to NHS? Technically true!
I don't understand how any country can leave such a decision to a simple majority vote. For me either joinning or leaving should pend on a 2/3 voting.
Because they thought not much people would vote for it and it certainly would not get a majority. The aim was for a sizable minority to use for political manoeuvering. Actual winning and having plans for that was inconceivable. But they've seriously misread the people's sentiment.
They've seriously misread how much stupid people can be.
Cameron the chancer. He gambled, we lost.
Now there's an excellent question.
I'm a Brit and I endorse this message. I want us back in, I want us to accept the Euro and Schengen Area, I want us to have to do as we're told once we're in. We need knocking down another peg or two
Agree although, presumably joining the Schengen and the euro would make it harder for the oligarchy to keep using London City as a money laundering and tax haven funnelling device. I suspect there would be strong pushback on that!
Could you also start to make edible food ? /s
No deal
Comment of the day. Here here!
I mean bus Boris shenanigans convinced dumb people.. Where’s the fricking money for NHS, Boris?
Comment of the day. Here here!
I would support them joining. But of course no fucking tantrums will be tolerated. You will abide by the same rules as everyone else.
Yup, adopting the Euro as currency would be my first condition. They threw a lot of privilege and bargaining power away out of pride, so that pride should be injured as much as possible (but without emiserating the common people).
I was very strongly against us leaving, and I would love the UK to rejoin, but give up the pound? That is absolutely not happening.
There is literally zero chance of the British accepting the Euro. It has disaster baked into it.
The Maastricht treaty defined that you lose the right to 1. run budsget deficits in periods of economic contraction. 2. Set interest rates. 3. Devalu your currency when necessary.
Greece got to borrow at rates Germany enjoy - for a while. Germany gets a hugely devalued currency which actually allows it to be a great exporter (well that and the US post WW2 investment).
This inequality in peripheral countries absolutely drives the rise of the far right.
Other than that |the British people don't want to be in the EU. Being forced into it will put Reform UK into power. They are as Russia aligned as Trump.
other than that the British people don't want to be in the EU.
So your point is that regardless of the euro thing the Brits don't want back? Then why are there so many polls with majority wanting in, and so many talks about it? It's all media manipulation?
We'll only rejoin if it makes the rich people who live here a lot of money, and that would have to be as soon as possible after that happens.
Otherwise, picture a child sitting, pouting and petulant, arms folded tight, on a stool in a corner saying "no!"
There's a vague possibility of long-term gains turning their heads as well, but the armchair physicist and psychologist in me thinks that the gain would need to be proportional to the square of time in order get through their greedy little brains.
The UK didn't have a referendum to join the EU originally so I really don't get why they had one to decide if they should leave. That referendum was bought and manipulated by the Russians I'm sure.
I would love the UK to rejoin the EU. They will probably want to keep the pound which will most likely be the main sticking point, but everything else including being part of the Schengen region should be non negotiable.
Most people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain would support UK rejoining EU, poll finds
Sure, but as an equal member, without special treatment, which won't please current UK.
Asked whether Britain should be allowed back in on the same conditions it enjoyed when it left, including not having to adopt the euro currency and remaining outside the Schengen passport-free zone, the numbers changed significantly.
Only one-fifth of respondents across the four biggest EU members, from 19% in Italy and France to 21% in Spain and 22% in Germany, felt the UK should be allowed return as if it had never left, with 58-62% saying it must be part of all main EU policy areas.
In the UK, while 54% of Britons supported rejoining the EU when asked the question in isolation, the figure fell to just 36% if rejoining meant giving up previous opt-outs. On those terms, 45% of Britons opposed renewed membership.
The shithole that outlawed peaceful protest and considers supporting Palestine a terroristic threat? Nothankyou
We need them in the fucking fold. They have nukes, they still wield tremendous power. Isolating them will only make them more radicalized.
With them in the EU we at least have some control and influence over their fucking slipping.
When a family member goes off the rails, you don't abandon them, you try to bring them back to sanity.
You give them too much credit. Without US making their decisions for them they can’t do anything. Inside or outside the EU, they’re a liability
UK is a shithole country
They are the Americans of Europe.
Haha, yeah but no Pounds. All Euros.
And Schengen please. No more border checks going to/from London.
How would the EU/UK combat disinformation though? It's way too easy to blame any change in social conditions on the EU.
Yeah, they can come back. As pairs
Give back the north of Ireland, let Schotland become independant and join the EU. Problem solved.
I'm here for rEUnion
The UK made their bed, now lie in it. Former empire of old that has never done reparations. Now sucking up to Trump. Nice one Brits. 🙄
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