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[–] genfood@feddit.org 50 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah cool, but they won't that should be clear for everybody.

[–] hokori616@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True, it is very unlikely that this will directly lead to anything. However, it might at least force Labour to clarify where they stand. Tories and Reform are against rejoining. LibDem, SNP, Plaid, and Greens are for rejoining. And Labour are officially against rejoning... right now, but it was still definitely a mistake to leave in the first place and they would undo it if they could. This debate would hopefully start Labour on a path to step down from the fence.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Seems possible it could open the door to other possibilities too. Like sure they probably aren't going to rejoin any time soon but strengthening collaboration with the EU is possible without full membership.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah... The petition directly goes against the government's manifesto, so I seriously doubt this'll do very much

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There's such a prevailing vibe that the EU would want us back too... What if they don't?

I mean, after events of this week, it's probably more likely, but even then they'd be well within their rights to tell us to sod off.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

EU doesn't want to renegotiate all the trade deals and all the aggreements and mutual rulings with an unruly child of a country that still thinks that they are more important than anyone else. More importantly they aren't fans of an idea of doing it every three months or whatever.
But if the UK will get their shit together and will want to join for real and be a good member of the Union, I am sure everyone aggrees that they are more than welcome.

Agree we (the UK) can’t be on-again-off-again partners in the European project, though if things shift enough that we were properly in on it it’d help to have another big player to offset populists like Orban getting their claws in.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Even during early phases of Brexis the EU was open to the UK rejoining - in an official manner.

I don't see why that would have changed. If the UK wants to rejoin, it can apply, and the join process will start. It's simple, really.