RubberDuck@lemmy.world to UK Politics@feddit.uk · 5 days agoBritain will not rejoin EU in my lifetime, says Starmerwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down11cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
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minus-squareDrCake@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·5 days agoHe can agree with the referendum and say we won’t join whilst he’s leader. But to say lifetime is a long fucking time
minus-squarefrazorth@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoBecause you’ll also need to convince the other members of the EU that we aren’t going to come in, shit in the corner and then fuck off again? Yes it’s a long time, but we have burnt so many fucking bridges.
minus-squareThe Snark Urge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days agoBasically this. If it’s a Ming vase strategy that’s one thing, but this is overcommitting to the bit, if so.
minus-squareTwig@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·5 days agoIt’s almost as if he needs to say these things to get elected.
minus-squareThe Snark Urge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 days agoI don’t credit that one bit. Going back is an increasingly popular view, and then there’s the whole Russian interference angle; it was a bad idea with a fumbled execution. Why commit, because it’s gone so well for us?
minus-squareTwig@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·5 days agoBecause it’d be political suicide to go back on it.
He can agree with the referendum and say we won’t join whilst he’s leader. But to say lifetime is a long fucking time
Because you’ll also need to convince the other members of the EU that we aren’t going to come in, shit in the corner and then fuck off again?
Yes it’s a long time, but we have burnt so many fucking bridges.
Basically this. If it’s a Ming vase strategy that’s one thing, but this is overcommitting to the bit, if so.
It’s almost as if he needs to say these things to get elected.
I don’t credit that one bit. Going back is an increasingly popular view, and then there’s the whole Russian interference angle; it was a bad idea with a fumbled execution. Why commit, because it’s gone so well for us?
Because it’d be political suicide to go back on it.