Starmer is so frustrating on this. He MUST be aware there is a groundswell of anti-BREXIT feeling in the country. Elephant in the room doesn't come close.
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Rejoining the EU isn't our simple decision. It is something that will take years to do, create numerous sideshows and need significant effort to manage. To go at it now simply isn't a realistic proposition.
That's simply not true. If rejoining ever comes on to the agenda, UK FPs might (only might) have to ultimately be changed at the end of the process, but their existence certainly wouldn't preclude beginning & pursuing a joining process. (Most other UK SEZs predate Brexit anyway.)
They get SA, & possibly (tho not certainly) in a form EU rules wouldn't allow. If so & if UK rejoined then they might have to be changed or ended (as happened to some SEZs in some countries joining EU). Certainly not a big issue re rejoin prospects or a bar to applying if/when that ever happens.
I think those who are pro European think there is a groundswell whereas I think the reality is that the general public are just fed up with hearing about it. It is a non issue now - as reported on the doorstep during the last election and as not voted for when Lib Dems ran on B*****s to Brexit
When asked that question, sure. But I think Sarah is quite right that doing so isn't seen as a priority issue (that isn't to say that the effects of Brexit are not a priority, but they aren't necessarily configured in those terms).
Cut them some slack fgs, they've barely been in office for seven weeks and are essentially having to respond to a rightwing media in 'silly season' whilst parliament is in recess and everyone's on holiday
No, I mean in the 2019 election. If so many people wanted to rejoin, why didn't they vote for it?
I remember opinion polls putting Neil Kinnock streets ahead, but the election gave a very different outcome. Posters concluded people were just expressing anger at the incumbent govt.
I take issue though with the citing of two separate groups - the pro-EU and ‘the general public’. The first is necessarily a part of the second - not distinct from it - and 59% would apparently like to rejoin. 🤷🏻♀️ Leaving the EU certainly wasn’t a priority issue either - until the question was asked!
I think Starmer is a little afraid of the red wall still. Starmer lived through Corbynism and knows it allowed the Conservatives another term and gave the Tories and Boris justification for carrying on with their shenanigans regardless.
I think he knows that despite people having turned against Brexit, most people probably don't want a rerun of the referendum just yet, and they don't want a great deal of his whole first term being devoted to winning a referendum. And of course if he lost it would be the end of his govt ...
“Get Brexit Done” worked so well for Johnson in large part because people were sick to death of hearing about it. I don’t think that’s changed to the point where the idea of another referendum wouldn’t be greeted with widespread groaning.
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I remember opinion polls putting Neil Kinnock streets ahead, but the election gave a very different outcome. Posters concluded people were just expressing anger at the incumbent govt.
There you go. I’ve done the hard work for them already.
I think there’s a majority for just being back where we were before all this started. But not for what’s required to get there.
And it’s not just up to us.