Would you vote to re-join the EU in another referendum?

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Simple question. If there is another referendum to re-join the EU, will you be voting to re-join?

This isn't to have a go at anyone who supported Brexit, or who supported Remain, it's just a quick straw poll. Thank you.

If anyone is wondering, (or cares!) I think I will vote to re-join. (I won't say at this point what I voted for last time...)

If a majority of the electorate think we should rejoin, or at least rejoin the single market - and the polls overwhelmingly suggest that this is the case - then why shouldn't this be explored?

I thought the reason we left the EU was because it was the democratic will of the British people at that time. If the democratic will of the British people is now to rejoin, after having gained a better understanding of the reality of what Brexit actually meant, then why would you argue against it?

Brexit cut across party politics. Have you forgotten about the red wall - the Labour voters that elected BJ because they backed Brexit. Most people I know voted remain and they are not Labour voters. That said I’m growing to like AB more and more as time goes by.

I agree with this

Would we? We were in it before and kept the pound. Why should it be different now?

I voted Leave before (mostly for the fishing rights, my family business). We were lied to, or at least not told the whole truth. Yes, I want to rejoin.

It's not true that Brussels has found it easier to find consensus without the UK. There have bee several pieces of legislation that they've more or less had to go back to the drawing board with, eg AI regulation, corporate responsibility to name but two - because they couldn't get agreement from governments.

The UK was always lambasted for not being good Europeans and yet they had a better record of implementing EU legislation than most.

But you are 100% right that it cost EU countries millions (billions, probably) and I wouldn't be happy to put up with the UK's flipflopping. That said, with threats from Putin and China and the US being unreliable, realpolitk might make EU governments put that behind them.

When you joined in 1973 there was no Euro so it is not the same argument. All new countries are now required to join the Euro so why would the UK get special treatment?

Realistically, it is very unlikely that the EU would let us rejoin on the preferential terms that we had previously. Sadly, we have burned those bridges.

I think you were certainly lied to. That is well evidenced. However, I think you were also told the whole truth, which was dismissed by many as Project Fear. Ultimately, I guess it came down to whatever people wanted to believe.

We will never completely undo the damage that Brexit did, but at this point, it's about damage limitation.

That’s unrelated to the fact that it’s not as the pp suggested. I voted remain but not Labour.

I’m not sure re rejoining.

I wish they'd hurry up and sort out the youth mobility scheme before the kids who didn't get to vote in the referendum because they were too young are too old to benefit. Just get on with it and some of our youngsters who can't get jobs here can try their luck overseas. And I know youngsters from the EU would come here but they might not need to if the employment situation is better where they live.

I voted to remain before. But now I don't know if I would. Not because I think Brexit has been a success (it certainly hasn't), but because the EU would (rightly) make the terms and conditions far less favourable than they were before.

Burnham couldn’t do it without either another reference or a manifesto commitment. There is no way a prime minister who was annointed could take something this important through parliament without either a new election or a referendum. He’s a smart guy and is well aware of this.

Also, it makes sense to just join the single market as a first objective. I just don’t think that would be too controversial given the way we have suffered being out of it.

I suspect that he could go for a snap election in the next year or so, with this as a manifesto commitment. I do think it would be popular, especially backed by a solid campaign, costings etc.

And, obviously the manifesto commitment would allow the government to negotiate on out behalf, not just sign whatever is put in front of us. However, I can’t see us not being offered the same deal as Norway or Switzerland. It’s in everyone’s benefit for us to rejoin.

Yes. Definitely would vote remain again.

This is a major problem.

We would not be voting to remain.

We would be voting to rejoin.

There will be a massive difference. We will not be voting to restore ourselves to the position we were in on exit.

A failure to understand this difference is a catastrophe lack of understanding.

It matters hugely.

We could not afford to rejoin. The EU only want our money to bail them out. There would be very little benefit for the average person.

Daughter of a shop steward here with a comprehensive education, from a northern red wall town but currently living in a Reform held constituency. Would I vote to re-join the EU? In a fucking heartbeat, YES!!!

Yes

OTOH, we have lost hugely from leaving the single market. I had no idea it would be this bad
Yes, it's a pity there were no economics specialists telling us in the lead-up what the ramifications were going to be

I'd rejoin, and I'd be happy to have the euro.

Okay. I appreciate the pedantry. I wasn't old enough to vote to join.

I voted to remain.

Would vote to rejoin.

Hopefully you'll understand.

Oh and I care not for your personal concerns and opinion on re joining, stop with the catastrophe scenarios.

It's a positive step back to prosperity for all corners of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

I don't want a referendum because that's a stupid sledgehammer of a political tool. Populist bollocks.

I do desperately wish we could rejoin the EU but I don't see what the EU gains by letting us back in under anything under rather punishing terms.

"Pour encourager les autres" and all that.

@FucksGivenZero ,

‘Daughter of a shop steward here with a comprehensive education, from a northern red wall town but currently living in a Reform held constituency. Would I vote to re-join the EU? In a fucking heartbeat, YES!!!’

And I would get uni educated and solidly middle class now?

Anecdote isn’t data, anyway. Those seats (and the MPs that represent them) are a genuine headache for Burnham.

Politically, it is no good if he becomes even more popular in the metropolitan seats where Labour already has a strong majority, whilst ceding to reform the marginal red wall seats.

I think Burnham does have the appetite to make real positive change, and I admire him for it. He has done really well to open the conversation. OTOH, he is a politician and he isn’t going to commit political suicide. This is a trial balloon really, to see how it goes down with his stakeholders and the media. He isn’t going to rush into doing anything.

I was strong remain.

I absolutely think the UK joining the euro would be insanity as we would lose the ability to control various parts of our economy as we would not be able to control our own currency.

See Greece.

*guess

Same

It's not pedantry at all.

It's fundamentally understanding what we would be voting for.

Calling it pedantic is incredibly ignorant.

I don't care how other people ultimately vote PROVIDED THEY UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION

This thread is proving to me the extent to which the whole thing is already problematic because people aren't understanding the question properly.

This is what you learn as a basic skill at school and yes it does bloody matter.

My main point really was to respond to the person who said, 'we have lost hugely from leaving the single market. I had no idea it would be this bad'.