What shall we call the return?

[SevenYellowHammers]

Briturn? Britsin? Britback?

or just a big dose of humble pie?

Brenter

"Mission Impossible". It isn't going to happen. The public are done with mass immigration.

Yeah because it's been a bed of roses since Brexit. I think the immigrants became a problem AFTER brexit.

No - people could just more or less walk into the UK back then - very few travel restrictions between EU countries. They now have to endure these dangerous boat crossings.

OK - people still come across, but the numbers are a lot less

If we go back into the EU - France will be rubbing their hands. They will issue travel documents to everyone at the Calais camps, jump on a ferry and into the UK as a lawful 'visitor'. Then just disappear!

France solve their problems by legally passing them to us.

I think we were done with it in 2016 - hence Brexit and 7 PMs in 10 years. - But still it goes on

@estrogone

I think the immigrants became a problem AFTER brexit.

Labour are saying that current immigration levels are now down to pre Brexit levels.

This was illegal entry back down to pre-brexit levels.

With free movement, most of it will be legal - so the figures are going to be impossible to compare.

I think that's because the politicians and senior civil servants still haven't got the message.

Hence why Parliament continually rejected Teresa May's attempts at a "soft Brexit" to keep some benefits - they didn't want ANY kind of Brexit which is why it took Boris to stand on a platform of hard brexit and win convincingly to get the message across to Parliament!

@Badbadbunny

Hence why Parliament continually rejected Teresa May's attempts at a "soft Brexit"

May’s deal was not Brexit, but pay to remain. That she attempted to conceal the legal advice prepared by Geoffrey Cox, UK attorney general at the time, was a give away.

Had her deal gone ahead, the UK could have been locked into the EU forever without a say and ongoing costs.

The last time there was a constitutional rupture in Britain, we called it the interregnum which concluded with the Restoration.

(Curiously enough the Commonwealth struggled to make it past a decade too ...)