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UK should just rejoin the EU. Wonder what that will take? Another referendum or vote within UK? Then EU needs to accept their membership again?

by xyst 3y ago

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quickthrowman 3y ago
The UK has zero leverage and I doubt they would be willing to accept what the EU would offer. The EU holds all the cards in this game.
- rich_sasha 3y ago
  To expand on it, UK had some special riders on the EU deal. Without arguing about whether they were fair, I guess these would be out, and EU membership would be less attractive. But more attractive still than the current mess, if you ask me!
tim333 3y ago
My guess is we won't actually rejoin but the coming Labour government will undo some of the more stupid brexit changes.
avmich 3y ago
UK should join, and should join on equal conditions with other countries. It's not only rather silly to talk about Europe leaving UK outside; it's also beneficial for positions in talks with other countries and for less economical barriers inside EU. The benefits of Brexit may not be realized yet - so opponents of joining EU may have some arguments - but so could be said about drawbacks, and general agreement is that unions are more successful. When it should join? If today both EU and UK are cold enough about joining, it shouldn't be forced. However, in the long run it looks rather like inevitability. EU should and I think will have interest in UK joining them. UK should also have an opportunity to improve EU as part of the joining talks, which both make UK joining easier and EU stronger in the long run. One of the biggest complaints about EU - not even only in UK, but in EU itself - is the bureaucracy in Brussels. It's a complex problem, but UK-EU crisis seems like a great opportunity to improve the situation. Information transparency on all levels - with laws and law applications clearly visible to all the population, law clarification itself, all efforts to bring that "common sense" the lack of which is so disliked by people - all of that could be in the package for UK to join EU on a better terms for everybody.
z303 3y ago
20 years

UK should just rejoin the EU. Wonder what that will take? Another referendum or vote within UK? Then EU needs to accept their membership again?

by xyst 3y ago

UK should just rejoin the EU. Wonder what that will take? Another referendum or vote within UK? Then EU needs to accept their membership again?

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quickthrowman 3y ago

The UK has zero leverage and I doubt they would be willing to accept what the EU would offer. The EU holds all the cards in this game.

rich_sasha 3y ago
To expand on it, UK had some special riders on the EU deal. Without arguing about whether they were fair, I guess these would be out, and EU membership would be less attractive. But more attractive still than the current mess, if you ask me!

tim333 3y ago

My guess is we won't actually rejoin but the coming Labour government will undo some of the more stupid brexit changes.

avmich 3y ago

UK should join, and should join on equal conditions with other countries. It's not only rather silly to talk about Europe leaving UK outside; it's also beneficial for positions in talks with other countries and for less economical barriers inside EU. The benefits of Brexit may not be realized yet - so opponents of joining EU may have some arguments - but so could be said about drawbacks, and general agreement is that unions are more successful. When it should join? If today both EU and UK are cold enough about joining, it shouldn't be forced. However, in the long run it looks rather like inevitability. EU should and I think will have interest in UK joining them. UK should also have an opportunity to improve EU as part of the joining talks, which both make UK joining easier and EU stronger in the long run. One of the biggest complaints about EU - not even only in UK, but in EU itself - is the bureaucracy in Brussels. It's a complex problem, but UK-EU crisis seems like a great opportunity to improve the situation. Information transparency on all levels - with laws and law applications clearly visible to all the population, law clarification itself, all efforts to bring that "common sense" the lack of which is so disliked by people - all of that could be in the package for UK to join EU on a better terms for everybody.

z303 3y ago

20 years