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...)

We are a United Kingdom of Nations.

Why are you so insistent in replying to me when I have respectfully asked you to stop?

Not every country that belongs to EU adopted euro.

Did you mean to quote me?

But every new member has to has to plan to adopt it.

Yes. Want my nephews and neices to be able to work anywhere in EU. Also think better from a security point of view.

Wow, what a lot of votes, and responses, thank you everyone.

Lots of good points and good comments. Especially the ones saying it would depend on the terms and conditions.

I actually voted for Remain in 2016, but was OK with the Leave vote winning. I just kind of accepted it. I hated the division and hatred and vitriol that was bandied about because so many people were angry at the Leave voters winning though. (Some might say it was understandable as some people were so furious,) and I think that was bound to happen.

As I say, I was OK with leaving, but, as time has gone on, I can't see what benefits we have had from leaving the EU. Yes, we can make deals with other countries outside of Europe, but apart from that Brexit didn't benefit people very much as far as I can see. We stopped paying the £350 million a week when we finally left the EU in January 2020, but I can't see where that 'saving' is. No-one seems to be better off! The NHS is not in a good way, and to be honest, border control hasn't improved a single iota (Brexit promised that the borders would be controlled much better.)

Basically, we may as well have stayed in the EU. (IMO.) So yeah, I think I would vote to re-join.

Presumably they had a vision for what they expected Brexit to deliver. So why didn't they pursue that vision?

I take your point that they may have been incompetent. But what do you actually think they should have done differently that would have produced different results?

Most of the critique I've seen of the Brexit deal seems to be a version of complaining that the government failed to leave the EU while simultaneously negotiating a settlement in which the UK retained all of the benefits of being in the EU. And that was never going to happen.

Absolutely bloody NOT.
Can't even trust our own politicians, never mind that lot.

The saving has gone into welfare spending (the saving was actual only £150m per week once the rebate etc is accounted for). Would people be willing to cut £8bn a year from welfare to rejoin?

Honestly, I think it’s because they were shit negotiators.

I voted remain but not sure I’d definitely vote to rejoin. The EU has a huge number of problems, and I don’t think rejoining the EU will deliver massive benefits to the poorer parts of the UK that voted to leave. At which point round and round we go.

So what exactly do you think they could have managed to negotiate that they failed to get?

As a citizen of an EU state, I'd want a very careful deal before we accepted you membership. You weren't easy to live with when you were members.

You are making the same mistake as the original referendum, in that you are only giving two options.
Yes, some would like to go back in fully, others not at all

But there is the middle ground of joining the markets without joining the political side of the EU.

Absolutely but I want to know what it will cost and who of the Brexiteers eg Gove, Boris, Radcliffe etc gets the bill. But what are the t&c because we won't get that sweet deal we gave away.

A big positive of rejoining would be the saving of VAT on the kids school fees!

Not this time

Yea 100%

Yes I would but I would also cringe at all the money wasted in getting us to leave. And all the money it would take for us to re-join. What a shambles.

I don't think any major referendum on any form of constituional change should be 50% +1

whether this is Brexit Scottish / Welsh independance unification of Ireland , voting reform etc

on an international level I wish there was a UN standard for what constitutes a legal vote for independence whether this is Scotland Catalonia South Sudan Greenland etc it houkd be a defined majority not a narrow one that could go the other way in a weeks time my thoughts are a minimum of 60% and a plan for the minority to be represented in the case of an independent country

50%+1 is fine for a seat in parliament a senate counsel or a referendum on a mayor, minor issues some countries have lots of referendum like Switizerland some barely any

Have a look at the differences between EEA only and full membership. Three countries have this, Norway, Iceland, and Lichtenstein.

Which do you think would work for UK (if there are positive negotiations). EEA status allows free movement and access to EU single market, but not the Customs Union. There are other differences too.

It might not be all or nothing.

Absolutely. The whole debacle has been a shocking waste of public money, and it has delivered nothing but negatives.

I blame David Cameron. It should never have been put to the public vote as the vast majority of people didn't understand what they were voting for.

border control hasn't improved a single iota (Brexit promised that the borders would be controlled much better.)

I thought net migration was currently at its lowest level since 2012? Are Labour politicians lying again?

What happens if Ukraine and Albania join the EU?

Will half of Albania move to the UK? Thousands crossed the Channel in small boats. Tens of thousands of Romanians/Roma have also been refused entry at the UK border since we left the EU.

Freedom of movement and Schengen with Ukraine seems like a security risk. We already know that Russia has been using Ukrainian proxies in the UK, Russian soldiers and spies have disguised themselves as Ukrainians elsewhere as well. Also, will the bulk of EU development money be sent to Ukraine to rebuild after the war, UK manufacturing relocate to Ukraine encouraged by EU subsidies?

Well, we could vote to start negotiations to join, and then decide finally when we see what the best terms are.
(That would be the intelligent way, as opposed to, say, deciding to leave and then negotiating to see what scraps the EU might let us have).

Who is 'that lot'?