How many years before Britain re-enters the EU?

Would they have us back??

I’m not so sure.

They are unlikely to put up with our shenanigans, the ERG still have a massive stake in the Tory party.
 
Albania is on the current agenda to join the EU, so it would really nark those people smugglers if the UK rejoined Brussels and facilitated the criminal network in this country without all those risks in rubber dinghies.
 
Muttley said:
The future, as I see it, is re-joining the SM and CU. I suspect that Starmer will do this during the next parliament, but it will be called something else. "Market harmonisation" and "Customs alignment" perhaps? Making us "more like Norway" which was a major selling point during the 2016 campaign. You never know we might even sign up to Schengen. The collapse of the EU is just another part of the misinformation campaign used to leverage the collective xenophobia that is depressingly still part of the British psyche. (See also imminent acceptance of Turkey as a member)

Five years for that. EU membership not for another five at least. But I believe it will come.
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I am not sure starmer could do that without having something in the manifesto. I guess you could argue that closer alignment with the EU could include cu/sm membership.

I do think, in the event Labour get a second term we will rejoin the sm/cu.

On the point of the euro. If we fully rejoined that would be stipulated but it has no sunset.. See Poland as an example, nearly 20 years a member and still not adopted the euro, albeit there has been plans for about a decade.
 
Crusoe said:
Perhaps the question ought to be how long before the EU and the Euro collapses? In the long term the Euro as a currency is not sustainable,given the incompatibility of the various economies within the Euro Zone. Any attempt by the UK to rejoin would mean accepting the Euro,and the financial debacle that will follow its collapse. Best to give it a wide berth for the foreseeable future.
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If you've not noticed it's the £ that's been collapsing, not the €
 
Crusoe said:
Check the currency market. The Euro has been below parity to the dollar,not so the Pound Sterling.
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That means nothing though because that's just the level that your currency is set at. For example the Turkish lira is about 0.054 USD. No matter how strong the lira is it relative to the $, it will never have parity.
 
Centralscrutinizer said:
If we eventually did become a member of the EU again there'd be a role reversal with cheap labour from the UK flooding over to Europe to try and earn money to send home 😁
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Would rejoining the EU create skill shortages in the UK?

I know many in the construction sector used to work in the ROI but live in Northern Ireland and that was over 20 years ago. Wages were nearly double in Dublin compared with Belfast (and we still paid for their EU subsidies).

When Scotland joins the EU (if they Vote Leave, UK) and rejoinn the EU will thousands of people be commuting from poverty stricken Newcastle to Edinburgh?

The Norweigan model, in SM out EU might not please many in the UK, but over 50% would definitely support it. Its time Labour put their support behind it.
 
Jedi boro said:
Have you seen what’s happening in Italy and the possible futures in France and Austria etc.
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It's been happening in Italy and Austria for quite some time. They're unstable. However, I doubt that another state will be leaving the EU soon particularly in view of what's happened here. The sooner we return to normal trade the better.
 
Starmer knows full well that he must not question Brexit at any forthcoming election. His nonesensical stance on Brexit lost Labour the red wall. He needs to win the red wall back if he has any chance of forming a viable government.
 
Crusoe said:
Starmer knows full well that he must not question Brexit at any forthcoming election. His nonesensical stance on Brexit lost Labour the red wall. He needs to win the red wall back if he has any chance of forming a viable government.
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I agree, when the labour paty polling suggests rejoining is a vote winner, he will switch to that stance. I assume he, personally, thinks its a good idea to rejoin but the EU would be dubious and the electorate probably are not up for another 6 or 7 years of division.
 
I suppose it's worth being pedantic and saying that there is no re-join mechanism/procedure with the EU. We'd have to apply from scratch and fulfil the required conditions - The Copenhagen Criteria, which we currently don't, we'd also need to be accepted by each individual EU member, that isn't happening in most of our lifetimes.
 
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