To wish Starmer would make a unilateral decision to rejoin the EU?

[Wildflowers99]

That’s all, really. Yes it would be ‘undemocratic’ but should we sacrifice national interest on the altar of a vote from 10 years ago that everyone seems to regret?

We feel adrift during a scary time, and the US has all but ghosted us.

Nope. I'd much rather Starmer have some backbone and resign, though. Wish we could vote on it - he'd be out like a shot.

Completely agree. Can you imagine what we’d have to agree to before they’d even consider it? We might as well just shut down parliament and hand over the keys to the front door. They’d make such an example of us to stop any other country who was thinking about it.

Unfortunately, the problem is that for Labour Brexit was the ultimate political wedge issue. It divided their supporters in two. Hundreds of Labour MPs represent seats outside the M25 which voted Leave in 2016, many of them by wide margins. Including senior cabinet ministers like Rachel Reeves in Leeds. And Angela Rayner in Manchester. And Yvette Cooper in West Yorkshire.

You want a dictatorship OP

Co-operating with like-minded NATO countries is the key to security. Forget the EU which is too divided.

Would they really want the Brexit party back in the EU parliament? They were joint largest party by MEP's before we left.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad to see that two thirds of posters think YABVU.

Bet you didn't see that coming @Wildflowers99 !!! And not everyone regrets it dear. 🙄

Why would we wanna go back into that boys club that controlled everything we did and took £350 million a week off us (whilst the vast majority of the other countries - around 2 dozen - paid in fuck all, but just took out?!)

Madness. Best thing we did leaving that corrupt organisation!

He really wouldn't and anyway who is going to do better?

We would need a referendum. Conditions of rejoining would be even more tied than before. It would be a bigger no vote than last time I’m afraid.

He can't but I wish he could. We will go back in eventually, it would be madness not to. What a hugely costly, obvious mistake was made. Fucked the country for a generation.

I think you will find it was the response to COVID that really did us in.

Starmers doing ok this week to be honest.

He cares more about power than his principals so for example cutting foreign aid to pay for defence is playing nicely into reform voters hands.

Trump is loving Kier today!

I'm sure Leavers are as well.

Plenty insisting they don't regret it, not one able to provide a coherent reason why.

Most Western countries had some form of lockdown, many stricter than ours. Most also had some kind of furlough.

We are fucked because of Brexit.

Oh don’t start that again. The personal attacks are a reflection of you not pp, she is entitled to express her opinion. As it turns out things are changing at such a pace in Europe and outside, and the US is a genuine ally. Or maybe you have simply forgotten history my friend.

The Tories took Britain into the EEC in 1973. No Referendum til Labour held one in 75. I remember being against membership. Well Ted Heath and Harold Wilson were right and I was wrong. Good job it wasn't up to me!
Sometimes you need strong leadership. Harder now though with news 24/7 and Twitter et al. Every pub bore has his own personal TV station now alas.

He absolutely should not!! Not one person I know who voted leave regret it. This country would become more of a shambles than it already is if he just decided to rejoin.

Omg no!!

The tides out right now and the eu is stark bollock naked!!

Who wants to be part of it??

The one big thing starmer has going for him right now is not being part of Europe meeting Trump!!

Europe has no teeth and it's eccomically weak
It can't defend itself.

The US are favouring Putin. Putin is trying to destabilise Europe by pouring vast amounts of money into social media propaganda blaming immigrants for people's problems and pushing conservatism. He's been at it since before Brexit, and it's why racism and misogyny are now commonplace, and the far-right are gaining voters.

That doesn't look like an ally to me. I think it's you who is forgetting history... it's all feeling a bit 1930s right now.

I didn't vote to leave and was quite horrified at the time but my eyes have been opened to the corruption of the EU a bit since then and now I am more on the fence about whether its such a terrible thing, long-term, that we've left. Only time will tell. I certainly wouldn't be longing for a dictatorship as the OP seems to be. A dictatorship headed by our current gov is the stuff of dystopian nightmares.

Lavender unfortunately no renainer has ever said anything of worth about being part of the eu only complain about airport queues and sandwiches.

Nothing about the black hole of corruption, the self serving massive eu gravy train human trafficking, in efficient systems, making decree with no way of backing them up. Forcing countries together who are a million miles away in culture and ideas. Utter miserable disaster. Oh but yes.... We have to wait in an airport queue (I havant)

100% this. ^

Yep, EU are absolutely corrupt.