• tankplanker@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Just makes starmers buffoonery of stating we will not rejoin in his lifetime, likely to be another 30 years, look daft. Labour was never going to be a trusted choice for ex ukippers choosing who to vote for this time no matter what he said. It’s pointless pandering that will cost him long-term as either we stay out and carry on costing the economy or he rejoins and looks a flipper.

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      4 months ago

      I think that it’s not whether Starmer wants to rejoin or not, it’s more that it’s reflective of political reality. Britain is now seen by the EU as an unreliable partner, and to repair that reputation will easily take a couple of decades. A start-stop attempt to rejoin, where Labour initiatives are reversed at the next change of government, would be as damaging as Brexit has been. There needs to be a recognition from at least the two largest parties that rejoining the EU is in Britain’s interest. We’re nowhere near that point, despite the fact that Brexit is now recognised as a howling teratoma by at least a small majority of British people.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t buy that at all. The Tories yeah 100%, but they aren’t there anymore, the adults are back in charge and the EU is going to want to shutdown right wing morons that have been spreading across the EU by showing Brexit was always a shit idea.

        The stages of Brexit copium are very similar to the narcissist prayer, we are at the point equivalent to you deserved it right now with the excuses to stay out.