To worry about a GE but think it could be our route back to the EU 🤞🏻

[CurdinHenry]

Surely surely cmon there's got to be a limit to how much poorer we want to get

Don’t worry, we’re not due for another GE for another 3 years, lots could happen between now and 2029.

If Brexit has been so bad for the economy, why are we the fastest growing economy in the G7?

I really hope we don't get a GE. We need a bit of steady steering.

I'm not thrilled with the prospect of Andy Burnham but if he must become PM, then just let's get it done with as little fuss as possible.

I'm guessing he won't be looking so smug in a month or two!

DD is the fastest growing kid in her class. She’s still 3ft tall.

We won't go back in the EU ever. Part of the condition for rejoining would be membership of the EZ, which would in no way fly with the electorate.

The country does not want to be in the EU, and the EU doesn't need countries like the UK sitting on the periphery sniping all the time. Federalisation is hard enough without awkward people like us in the way.

What might happen is we might negotiate closer ties re trade.

I'm not sure it would make that much difference for the majority of voters if we did go back in the EU. A bit less hassle over visas/travel a couple of times per year maybe.

I think it would more likely be a route to a Reform government than to the EU

Your wishful thinking is Incorrect, the majority of the UK is now in favour of returning and as time moves on and it bites further with more and more realising what a dreadful mistake it was and how much we were lied to the baying to rejoin will get bigger and louder. We absolutely could rejoin too.

Where’s the evidence that were the fastest growing economy?

Interesting debate and over a thousand comments below the line…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/23/three-guardian-columnists-debate-brexit-legacy

I think you may be in a bubble. I don't know anyone who would be happy to rejoin and I was a remainer. I suspect a referendum would have broadly the same outcome as last time but for different reasons.
The conditions we had before would not be available and we'd have to join the Euro to name but two.

Oh it's you.

Your kids will have smaller and poorer lives because of you. I don't care about that too much but it's annoying you get to affect my family too.

When we were in the EU we had special conditions I'm not sure there would the appetite for being a standard member. I don't hear many people calling for us switch our currency to the EURO which would be a requirement for rejoining just like any other new member.

Interesting. Virtually everyone I know would rejoin, and that includes some Brexit voters.

I don't know anyone who still supports Brexit (especially now it's clear that immigration of the Wrong Sort has only increased through the Boris wave). Maybe it's time for the UK to break up a bit.

Starmer's magic maths.

This is certainly possible hence my fear. Everyone I care about works for the public sector or in private firms where the public sector is the biggest client. And none of us can go elsewhere now because of bloody Brexit.

I would assume spending the rest of my life unemployed if reform won.

Previously we had a veto and also special concessions. Those are gone so going back in wouldn’t be as people think, certainly there would be a requirement to adopt the euro at least.

I wish we had never left but we did and I don’t think they wanted us back!

It would benefit the EU for us to participate too.

And I'd prefer the euro to not being part of it again. But I don't agree we couldn't negotiate otherwise.

Do you?

They will want to rejoin right up until the cost of rejoining is made clear to them.

Then it will be a completely different issue. The EU doesn't want us and doesn't need us. Their eyes are on high growth emerging economies to the East to drive GDP through exports, not our well developed markets. The cost that they will demand for us rejoining will be punitive and will not be one that the electorate are willing to accept.

The UK is growing steadily relative to the G7 average and will probably grow faster over the next few years as the transition to trade outside the EU completes.

Our trade is refocusing on the more dynamic economies of the US and Asia-Pacific.

Meanwhile the engine of Europe, the German, Italian and French economies have structural issues that make some of our problems look manageable.

Welcome to democracy.

I think your kids will have better lives, but I don't expect any thanks for it.

Brexit was 10 years ago. Lots has happened since that’s affected us that has diidly squat to do with it

we need to get over it stop bringing up and get on with things. It’s happened

and those that think we should rejoin do you acts understand what that will mean? They WILL make an example of us. We will have to pay shedloads more and have less to do with policy making. And they will continue with batshit policies that most member states will ignore and we add stuff to to make it more complicated.