If Britain rejoined the EU tomorrow…

[P. ONeill]

If Britain rejoined the EU tomorrow, which Brexit benefits would you miss the most?

The £350m per week has probably been swallowed up during Covid, but apart from that how has life changed for the average man in the street in Britain over the last couple of years?

[Ouroboros]

Flexibility of making choices on UK lives, without massive bureaucracy and political point making.

I think the stupid rules the EU loves, the stupid EU army would be hard for most to swallow.

I honestly can't see many positives to rejoining.

[Mr Whippy]

I’d miss being able to hold my MP and PM absolutely accountable.

Though for now the current PM seems to believe he can do what he wants.

EU leaders doing what they want.
UK leaders doing what they want.

Decisions decisions.

[bloomen]

P. ONeill said:

The £350m per week has probably been swallowed up during Covid

Um, does anyone believe that was anything other than utter bilge?

I don't run a business. If I did I would start making more money through exporting.

As for the benefits we revel in right now, I'm somewhat stumped. The world hasn't ended. It hasn't exploded in rainbows and cartoon birds doing loop the loops either.

Edited by bloomen on Sunday 19th June 12:57

[Vanden Saab]

Higher wages...

[anonymous-user]

The £80b saving of not having to contribute to the EU’s Covid bailout scheme.

[V8covin]

What benefits have there been ?

[MBBlat]

V8covin said:

What benefits have there been ?

We can get our passports in blue?
Civil servants get extra air miles renegotiating all those trade deals we used to have as members of the EU?
The French have extra excuses to hassle British tourists?

[z4RRSchris]

do we need another brexit thread.

[wolfracesonic]

James O’ Brien would be less likely to have an aneurysm live on air if we rejoined…Grrrrrr Boris

[heebeegeetee]

P. ONeill said:

If Britain rejoined the EU tomorrow, which Brexit benefits would you miss the most?

I'm not aware I've experienced any benefits, I do believe I've experienced disbenefits.

I'm not aware I've seen a penny of the £350 mill a week.

I do worry a bit about the lowering of standards that JRM is promising, (though I know that everything the UK sells will have to be to the buyers standards and regs).

Edited by heebeegeetee on Sunday 19th June 13:27

[TonyToniTone]

What sort of person celebrates the IRA's spokesman P. O'Neill that left the message before people were blown to bits?

[Vasco]

What would we miss?!! - the freedom to do what we want without having to make sure that it's ok with 27 other countries.
......but I'm sure you know that anyway.

Probably better if you stop dreaming of the impossible.

[donkmeister]

I do wonder if, instead of having post Brexit agreements that the EU and UK have different interpretations of, perhaps our government (successive governments in fact) should have just done what was best for the UK despite being in the EU. Maybe you get fined, but if the benefits outweigh the costs then so what?

Doing what France and Hungary do, in essence (many others I'm sure, but France's block of food imports from UK still sticks in my craw).

The "we'd love to do this but unfortunately it conflicts with our constitution" excuse doesn't work anymore, but that was a really good wheeze for the French whilst it lasted. Did lead to some unusual things, mind - France voted in favour of legislation to protect minority languages (e.g. Cornish) whilst refusing to enact it in France because their constitution pretends that no-one speaks Breton.

[alabbasi]

All the trade deals that we've made since with New Zealand and errr.....The Wu Tang Clan!!

[frisbee]

Bathing in the tears of Remoaners!

[crankedup5]

I would miss my pure political contentment of our reassurance that the U.K. will not be subsumed into an ever ambitious plot of Federalism.

[crankedup5]

Mr Whippy said:

I’d miss being able to hold my MP and PM absolutely accountable.

Though for now the current PM seems to believe he can do what he wants.

EU leaders doing what they want.
UK leaders doing what they want.

Decisions decisions.

But you can chuck out the U.K. leader.

[Electro1980]

Vasco said:

What would we miss?!! - the freedom to do what we want without having to make sure that it's ok with 27 other countries.
......but I'm sure you know that anyway.

Probably better if you stop dreaming of the impossible.

And what “rules” have we made since leaving that we could not before?

[swanny71]

V8covin said:

What benefits have there been ?

None