What shall we call the return?

[SevenYellowHammers]

Briturn? Britsin? Britback?

or just a big dose of humble pie?

So do I.

It was stupid to leave and even more stupid to do it the way we did.

I'd vote for bre-entry, but I think we're more likely to go for some kind of thresholdy not-quite-in status. Either like Norway/Iceland (EEA but not Customs Union) or like Andorra/Monaco (Customs Union that can potentially exclude ome or two specific sectors) but either way we'll be "rule takers" not "rule makers" we won't get the seat at the big-players table back.

I don't think they'll make us adopt the euro. It won't be long now till the pound weakens further towards a 1:1 exchange rate and at that point it will just be easy to take the pound off the international money market as a separate entity and say that from now on £1=€1 - effectively we'll be using the euro ij all but name, but will be allowed to keep calling it a pound.

Sandro Gozo (MEP) was on Radio 4’s Today yesterday and said, in his opinion, return could be swift because the UK constitution and economic structure is so similar to other members. We had a special arrangement to retain pound and he believed no reason why we still couldn’t. Which is a shame in my view but I’d settle for a return with the pound.

Backsies.

Lookwhosback.

Breform.

If Burnham keeps talking about this, it'll be the final nail in the coffin for Labour. He'll hand the next election to Reform.

I voted to Remain (Wales), but a lot of things have moved on since then. Would rejoining the EU mean we will lose all our recent gains re women's rights, for example?

Be careful what you wish for.

Wasn’t that what teresa May tried to get but the mps (of all parties) voted against all her compromise proposals!

Re- entry

Bre-Entry

@BadbadbunnyYes. The May proposal was better for us but we don’t get the brightest and the best MPs do we?

The mps thought they could stop Brexit and voted to scupper all the compromises put forward by May. Boris Won the GE because the public were fed up of the mps playing silly games with something so important and Boris proposed a definitive Brexit. The 2019 GE was effectively a second Brexit referendum. Not helped by Corbyn sitting on the fence and the hapless Libdems being the only genuine Remain party.

Brodigal son.

Brestoration

Very interesting! I agree re Euro. I do believe the great British public wouldn’t have objected to the single currency if it hadn’t been called “Euro”.

Brebound

Older people probably remember the disaster of being in the exchange rate mechanism as probably the main reason they don’t want a common currency.

Macron and Sánchez both signal immediate approval for our return. Hurrah!
BrengItOn! It's the NigeFall!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/30/macron-welcome-back-burnham-suggestion-uk-could-rejoin-eu

I bet Macron and Sanchez are rubbing their hands.

I'd welcome a country if they paid me billions and took 1.7m Syrian & North African EU passport-holders off my hands. Domestic politicians wanting to de-Merkelwave their own countries will be buzzing. Makerfield? Not so much.

I can't believe Burnham wants to put the country through another massively divisive referendum. He should just do it, if that's what they're planning.

Call it Brentrée.

He'll need a mandate first, if he's going to try to push rejoining without a referendum (at least that's the democratic thing to do). So that means calling and winning the next election. Given where Labour and Reform are in the polls, if Burnham takes Labour into an election based even partly on rejoining the EU, there is a real chance that we would end up with a Reform minority government.

And if Burnham tries to do this without a mandate... well the 2011 riots come to mind. There are a lot of very unhappy, unsettled people out there who would relish the opportunity.

I do.

People are so gullible! There is no chance that we will be rejoining the EU.

Internal discussions within the EU will take over ten years so even if Andy alone wants to rejoin, it will not happen quickly and by then, we could have a Reform government. The EU is getting more right wing and desperate for change, so we might fit in this time.

Watch the BBC QT episode 24 September 2026. Andrew Neil provided a good list of reasons why the UK would not benefit from rejoin the EU.

Jonathan Reynolds, Labour, also spoke well. Being in the EU didn’t solve UK
problems. So, rejoin wouldn’t solve them either.

For those who get excited about a rejoin, remember the following:

To trigger article 49 requires a vote by MPs. Do all Labour MPs have proof that a rejoin will make the UK better off than now?

UK has outgrown, Germany, France and Italy since leaving the EU.

UK has lower immigration than, Germany, France , Spain and Italy.

UK has lower US tariffs than the EU.

The EU would be forced to offer a deal that is less favourable than before.

Oh I bet he does! The UK were net contributers to the EU, so the quicker we're back in, the better for them!

I bet they want us back in - to pay of the combined debt of 15.7 trillion. "ooo the UK is doing well, they can shoulder most of this debt...." as well as paying 50 billion a month to be a member of this failing economy

Open borders mean - no more boats as people can just walk in. Register in France and just cross the water into the UK, its a win-win for France!

Back to the old out-of-date EU laws

European nations allow individuals to change their legal gender marker and name through a simple administrative process or self-declaration, without mandatory medical or psychological requirements.