The issue is you wont get a good deal and I don’t see any advantages of going into the euro (currency) or tying the uk to the european union.
Especially since the fiscal drag from coming out has come to an end.
Curiousinsomeways on
It’s gone so well well so far Keir. 9d chess move giving away fishing just to hold talks, brilliant.
hoopjoness on
As a French person reading this we’d be so happy to have you guys back in, even in an outer tier or however you’d like ❤️
Univeralise on
I just don’t see a point unless we get common market access without any border/checks. It feels this hybrid approach we typically get the worst of both worlds.
iamabigtree on
So far that Brexit basically didn’t happen? Ok then let’s go.
vaginal_obligations on
Feels like we’re edging closer again, and as an ex-Leaver I say it can’t come soon enough. Eventually conditions will be acceptable enough for the UK to rejoin. Current trade deals signed are trivial compared to what we can gain being in the bloc. Being on the outside feels like a complete loss of sovereignty when basically we have no leverage and have to bend over backwards for every major economic power. Today’s ‘deal’ with china was laughable – whiskey tariffs generating £250m over 5 years for the treasury. Absolute pennies. Then some vague promise about allowing UK companies in China. Just weak and pathetic. Join the bloc and get some economic sovereignty back.
pss1pss1pss1 on
Yep, sure. EU: “Pay us €10 billion a year and we’ll think about it.”
Krabsandwich on
He will no doubt try the Commission will no doubt ask for a massive amount of cash, the UK will say no and we will return to “negotiating” about talks. It will probably never be resolved to either sides satisfaction so we will keep on talking and hope that something turns up.
boredaf723 on
With Trump’s U.S. being as volatile as ever closer ties to the EU are necessary man. National pride needs to be set aside; Brexit was an awful idea in 2016 and now it is catastrophic
TravellingMackem on
It doesn’t matter. Kier said it. Therefore he’ll have to u-turn on it sooner or later.
Dayzed-n-Confuzed on
Why not we have given every thing else away. Why not those who don’t want to go??
Wise-Reflection-7400 on
Brexit is the scapegoat in the same way the EU was before we had Brexit. If we ever fully “unwound” Brexit and rejoined, it would not be long before all our economic problems were blamed on it again.
Just make good with the situation we have now. Our current economic struggles are not down to being outside the EU. We’ve been out for 5 years now and were beating EU growth until only a year or so ago…
ImColinDentHowzTrix on
As much as I’d love to see the damage from that stupid mistake undone, the argument can be made that we held a referendum and, stupid as it was, we did vote for this. If they go back on it then their critics would be right to say that they’re undoing a thing which we, in all our fucking wisdom, did *vote* for.
NotEntirelyShure on
Mark my words he will campaign the next election on rejoining and the election a mandate to rejoin.
Because that is the only thing that could galvanise support behind him.
xParesh on
Dear Kier, stop teasing us. Make it a manifesto pledge in for the next election that a vote for Labour is a vote to rejoin the EU.
If it’s such a sure fire slam dunk, just make the case and get on with it
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The issue is you wont get a good deal and I don’t see any advantages of going into the euro (currency) or tying the uk to the european union.
Especially since the fiscal drag from coming out has come to an end.
It’s gone so well well so far Keir. 9d chess move giving away fishing just to hold talks, brilliant.
As a French person reading this we’d be so happy to have you guys back in, even in an outer tier or however you’d like ❤️
I just don’t see a point unless we get common market access without any border/checks. It feels this hybrid approach we typically get the worst of both worlds.
So far that Brexit basically didn’t happen? Ok then let’s go.
Feels like we’re edging closer again, and as an ex-Leaver I say it can’t come soon enough. Eventually conditions will be acceptable enough for the UK to rejoin. Current trade deals signed are trivial compared to what we can gain being in the bloc. Being on the outside feels like a complete loss of sovereignty when basically we have no leverage and have to bend over backwards for every major economic power. Today’s ‘deal’ with china was laughable – whiskey tariffs generating £250m over 5 years for the treasury. Absolute pennies. Then some vague promise about allowing UK companies in China. Just weak and pathetic. Join the bloc and get some economic sovereignty back.
Yep, sure. EU: “Pay us €10 billion a year and we’ll think about it.”
He will no doubt try the Commission will no doubt ask for a massive amount of cash, the UK will say no and we will return to “negotiating” about talks. It will probably never be resolved to either sides satisfaction so we will keep on talking and hope that something turns up.
With Trump’s U.S. being as volatile as ever closer ties to the EU are necessary man. National pride needs to be set aside; Brexit was an awful idea in 2016 and now it is catastrophic
It doesn’t matter. Kier said it. Therefore he’ll have to u-turn on it sooner or later.
Why not we have given every thing else away. Why not those who don’t want to go??
Brexit is the scapegoat in the same way the EU was before we had Brexit. If we ever fully “unwound” Brexit and rejoined, it would not be long before all our economic problems were blamed on it again.
Just make good with the situation we have now. Our current economic struggles are not down to being outside the EU. We’ve been out for 5 years now and were beating EU growth until only a year or so ago…
As much as I’d love to see the damage from that stupid mistake undone, the argument can be made that we held a referendum and, stupid as it was, we did vote for this. If they go back on it then their critics would be right to say that they’re undoing a thing which we, in all our fucking wisdom, did *vote* for.
Mark my words he will campaign the next election on rejoining and the election a mandate to rejoin.
Because that is the only thing that could galvanise support behind him.
Dear Kier, stop teasing us. Make it a manifesto pledge in for the next election that a vote for Labour is a vote to rejoin the EU.
If it’s such a sure fire slam dunk, just make the case and get on with it