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Don't think EU will let them back in.
by tokai 2y ago
Don't think EU will let them back in.
- rsynnott 2y agoThe EU would let the UK back in in a heartbeat; the current situation really is good for nobody. It would likely lose the special treatment it had under its previous membership, however.
- tokai 2y agoWell Juncker said yesterday that UK can rejoin in a two centuries - maybe. EU leadership is against letting them back in, so I don't know where get that 'in a heartbeat'.
- rsynnott 2y agoJuncker is a retired politician; he can more or less say whatever he wants. At the end of the day, the UK rejoining would be of benefit to everybody, and it's hard to imagine that much opposition.
- TheLoafOfBread 2y ago2 centuries? Yeah no. 20 years? That's more likely.
- dukeyukey 2y agoI don't think the UK will try to join anytime soon, but the EU would be silly to not accept them back. The UK is already Europe's second biggest economy, and depending on how Germany goes, could be the biggest in a couple of decade. It has the biggest tech industry in Europe by quite a bit, a relatively healthy demography, a solid military, bases across the world, soft power _galore_). Like, grudges and personal issues aside, the numbers say the EU would be greatly bolstered with the UK in it.
- MattPalmer1086 2y agoThe EU has repeatedly said we would be welcomed back. Obviously we wouldn't be able to do that unless there was a clear political mandate for that. It would take (in my opinion) at least a generation before those conditions would be possible.