Associate membership of the EU: how possible is it?

[Johnsonsfiat]

It's something I would be interested in because I didn't want to leave the EU. But, it also seems like an impossible idea.
Sadiq Khan says he's in talks with EU regarding associate membership for London. Could that happen, and if so would individuals have to apply or would it be London wide?
Is anyone in the know about these things? I'd like to know more.

If it happens it totally discriminatory- the rest of the UK who voted remain completely ignored?

There's no way to prove how you voted. I can see lots of leavers applying for this and having their cake.

Utter nonsense.

Leavers don't want it.
Is that the new criterion for all UK policy?

Sadly at the moment I think it is. Tommy Robinson and his mates are getting everything they want at the moment.

I can see lots of leavers applying for this and having their cake.

Like them all rushing to get their Irish or other EU passports.

A friend of mine's Leave voting mum has just got an Irish passport because she doesn't want to lose her ER rights and might was to retire to Spain. Rights she has deliberately chosen to take away from her Remain voting children and grandchildren because of 'too many immigrants' in our overwhelmingly white British part of the country. My friend and his sister are one generation to far removed to get one and are no longer speaking to their mum.

Well unless you're going to put customs posts all round he M25, I don't see how it could happen

And it would utterly stuff up the rUK (as London is one of the very few net contributing regions)

But I suppose the Mayor has to be seen to be doing something. Election looming, and his tenure has not been marked by any real achievements (which is a shame, particularly his knife crime initiative - which could have been such an important legacy - which does not appear to have led to positive results)

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And it would utterly stuff up the rUK (as London is one of the very few net contributing regions)

Not this again. Contributing what? How much food and water does London produce? How much energy? Finance is all very well and good, but at the end of the day it is figures on a screen. Good luck importing everything from France.

I'd also like to know what about the rest of us throughout England who voted remain and do not live in bloody London!

Contributing the money is pretty important, when you think about cost of NHS, infrastructure, education (the list goes on)

So is contributing the food, energy and water. You know, being basic human needs. The rest of us are a little tired of London centrism.

The main reason why London contributes so much financially as it does is because it has sucked all of the economic contributions down there. Our leaders absolutely refuse to think of methods that would restore a more natural distribution or consider the rest of the country. It is true we are trapped to a certain extent by geography, but that is not the only reason and we are not that trapped.

The truth is that we are living in a country that set its path back in the 80s with the Miner's strikes, when the rich took the livelihood of millions away and gave us nothing to replace it. Now they have IT, and are using it to do the same. Every chance they get they take a bit more, and then add insults too and kick poor people a bit harder.

If we are to survive as a country these divisional attitudes have to stop - and they have to stop from the top. It's no good asking those without power or resources at the bottom to be better than those at the top and find all the solutions. We have to accept that the whole country contributes and all are valuable, or else we have nothing. Personally I'm running out of hope now, I think things have gone too far. Without some serious paradigmatic change - at the very top - the concept of a unified Britain, even a unified England, are doomed.