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Exclusive: Majority Of Voters Want Next Government To Take UK Back Into European Union
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this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2024
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With the fight over the pound in the 80s and 90s when they first formed the EU, I would be very surprised if the EU didn't force the UK to adopt the Euro to rejoin
Euro, Schengen and no special exceptions.
Why would they. Like the above comments says they have much more to gain by UK having to slink back so why would they put barriers to that.
It's also not as if the pound is a particularly weak currency like the French Frank or the German Deutsche Mark was.
The Deutsche Mark was famously stable and the biggest official foreign exchange reserves after the dollar, it was much stronger than the pound sterling.
They don't want to make it easy to get back in, so that other countries aren't tempted to leave in the first place. They shouldn't reward temper tantrums.
I would have thought the inverse would have been true that they would want to reward coming back It seems like a petulant philosophical view to suggest that the EU would not let the UK back in.
After all doing so would demonstrate that leaving is non-practical
If a kid throws their ice cream on the floor, giving them another one soon afterwards doesn't in any way teach the other kids not to throw their ice cream on the floor. This is very firmly a "no ice cream for you then" situation. I think labour realise they if they tried to rejoin, they would get a very rough ride indeed from the EU with massive amounts of playing hardball and that the best they can hope for in the next five years really is some softening and smoothing of the deal for being cooperative. We agree to fund EU science a bit, they let us back into erasmus, that kind of thing (although specifically not that).
But joining the EU takes a decade or more sometimes, and the "but it's really very simple, we follow most of the EU rules already because we're a former member" is as stupid as the "oven ready deal" and "German car manufacturers will insist we get a great deal" nonsense.