What are their chances in your opinion? I have a demoing l feeling this is a long time coming.
I think she is hopelessly naive if she thinks Britain will have no trouble satisfying the Copenhagen criteria and that it might even get some exceptions from the regular rules for joining the EU again.
I would argue that the UK doesn’t have a functioning democracy at the moment, nor does it fulfil many of the criteria that she brushes away with something about being a recent member because the Tories and the ERG in particular have worked to ensure exactly that. Some of the recent non-EU UK trade deals would become a problem as well.
A small minority also won’t be enough to convince any EU member state to allow the UK back in, it needs a solid majority that will persist even if the government in the UK changes again.
Negotiations with a country that basically can’t be trusted to stick to anything negotiated will also be incredibly difficult compared to your average country.
Britain also doesn’t have much to offer considering the EU doesn’t have much trouble exporting to the UK while they are not performing any checks. Nor is anyone keen on Britain’s obstructionist attitude in the EU processes again.
I would suggest the UK should concentrate on political, media and education reform to have a population with a better idea of their actual place in the world (and how their history is seen elsewhere) and a political system with actual checks and balances that actually represents the population.
This is how Britain could actually rejoin the EU
By applying. That’s the entire article. You’re welcome.
I see this happening eventually but not anytime soon - there’s too much other crazy going on right now to start negotiating reentry (not to mention we’re a while off the next election.) Right now we’d be entering with our tail between our legs, but ideally a return would be from a position of strength.
Forgive me for asking but how would the UK negotiate from a position of strength? Do you forsee that the UK will gain from its position outside of the EU?
I’ll be honest, no I don’t think so. But in an ideal situation it would be from a position of strength. I agree with others that if they do re-enter the special privileges of before will be lost.
Hopefully they don’t. The Welsh, Scottish, occupied Irish, and English working classes all deserve and can have do much better as independent nations. By rejoining the neoliberal comprador project that is the EU they only make their chances of a better future far worse.
How would the “occupied Irish working classes” become independent without joining the Republic and thus enter the EU?.
