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

a) Where did you read that?

b) How do we know that growth would not be ever greater had we remained.

Better how? Name one single improvement.

I despair at how small and unimaginative and unsuccessful people have dragged us all down. Because they feared foreigners? You're much more likely to have a foreign carer wiping your bum in old age now than when we were in the EU.

Even Burnham doesn't believe that otherwise he'd be going straight for mandate like Boris did.

😂We need the EU. The US doesn’t need us or want us.The European Union (EU) remains the UK's largest trading partner, accounting for 41% of all UK exports and 50% of all UK imports.

Our exports to the US are dropping since the tariffs.

I’m not going to get over this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg75npqkq4o

I don't think it's the real issue either. Liz Truss's short-lived stint did more to make people poorer and she only lasted 5 minutes.

I voted remain and would like to rejoin, personally. But we've had loads of shite shovelled on us in a decade.

It was from The Telegraph. He’d be an idiot to call an election on the basis of a poll now, wouldn’t he? It took Johnson six months.

Do the people of the EU get a say in this ?

🎶The freedom that you wanted back is yours for good, I hope you’re glad.🎶

16 million of us didn't want it.

I voted leave and I’d vote leave again.
Go to Brussels, or The Hague, or Strasbourg and you’ll see for yourself the epic waste of money around not only having the three locations, but the kerfuffle that goes with it. Do you know that when empty, ALL the lights remain on in Brussels?
Thats let alone their costly and largely unworkable policies.

He needs to time it right! It's just been reported that he is planning to remove the triple lock - which just like his benefit cuts it is the right thing to do, but will upset a lot of fractions - normally you do those things when you have four years for people to move on not a 2.5 years.

Op which country do you want us to emulate in the EU and why do you want us back there when we are a G7 country and most EU countries can't reach that tier ?

The French need a referendum to accept us back - not sure I can see that happening.

It is so so much more than that - catastrophic for trade and travel, and not just tourism. Did you see the recent figures for the creative arts and what Brexit has meant for them?!

@CoffeeCantata I know what you mean about the smugness. He looks as if he thinks it'll be an easy job, and the whole country will love him like the people on Manchester did!

Agree, that ship has sailed. It would be better if we hadn't left, but it would be worse if we re-joined.

We'd also have to find the £350m a week again. The one that we definitely didn't spend on the NHS despite NHS spending increasing 1.9bn a week since brexit.

Large swathes of the elecorate seem to think the answer is more Farage rather than reversing Brexit. Mind boggling imo but there you are!

All of them in the sense of being connected to and part of the eu. Because the UK is in acute decline by all metrics and lacks the international goodwill or internal attributes to attenuate this alone. Because quality of life matters to me. Because I don't prefer ignorance and isolation.

We don't need to be part of the EU though.

Yes, we should have a good trading relationship with the EU if possible. But throwing out our new opportunities that we have gained would be senseless.

The UK on its own can act more in the UKs interests than it can as a member of the EU. The EU as a trading bloc is actually quite protectionist. We can go back into that and get shackled to the less than dynamic French/Italian/German economies, or we can stay out and forge our own path with the ROW.

Being out of the EU is actually being more globalized, not less.

He’d be absolutely bonkers to remove the triple lock. They’ve got rid of Keir because they want a chance to win the next election. Removing the triple lock(which isn’t the right thing to do) would make it game over in an instant.

You won’t get any thanks as absolutely nothing I’ve seen in the last 10 years has suggested my kids will have better lives, so thanks for fucking up their future 🙄

Ngl this thread is a worry. I am so glad I grew up before these people got their way.

Three years. Where was it reported? Any link by any chance or was it on X?