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Speaking to the Italian newspaper la Repubblica, the Mayor of London outlined a roadmap for closer ties, including returning to both the customs union and the single market.
Sir Sadiq, who played a leading role in resisting the UK’s departure from the EU, now believes there is a route back to membership.
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He highlighted Brexit’s detrimental impact, stating: “I see on a daily basis the damage Brexit has done to not just London, but to Londoners, the damage economically, socially and culturally.” Sir Sadiq was unequivocal: “I’m quite clear in terms of what needs to happen, which is, we should join the European Union.”
The mayor cited the election of US President Donald Trump, growing global instability, and the passage of time as reasons to revisit the issue, arguing “the facts have changed” and “the evidence has changed”. He insisted: “We should, as a Labour Party, fight the next general election with a clear manifesto commitment, a vote for Labour means we would rejoin the European Union. I think it’s inevitable.”
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Didn’t the EU repeatedly warn the UK, during the lead up to Brexit, that they would be losing a ton of unique privileges if they left and subsequently rejoined, and that rejoining was far from guaranteed?
Yeah it was a fun experiment but please come back!
You gotta ditch the pound though.
It’s those kind of problems that makes me think it’s unlikely to happen.
Metrification alone practically caused a constitutional crisis.
If they EU was happy to “annul” brexit and pretend it never happened, there would be a realistic possibility. I doubt the EU would consider that however, as it would make leaving look easy.
No, please for metrification on us. Imperial wastes so much brain. As computers rarely have a way of entering fractions, you end up with decimals of an inch, or miles, etc. Stupid stupid system. Start with putting all distances and speed in both units, wait 30 years, and remove the imperial. It is aging out anyway, slowly. Fahrenheit is almost gone at least.
I just realised, the computer part is ironic since traditional fractions are a binary series. In binary 0.1 is 1/2, 0.01 is 1/4, 0.001 is 1/8, etc.
Don’t know when it stops doubling and switch to thousandths. I mean it’s not like imperial worries about sticking to any bases anywhere else.
you end up with decimals of an inch
tbf engineers were using decimal inches (as thou or mil) basically forever.
Well you have to. My old school engineer dad thinks of everything in “thou”, thousandths of a inch. And if it was all base ten, it wouldn’t be a problem. I had to deal with an imperial label last few weeks, with 3/64 and 3/32 parts. Anyone picking this up isn’t going to know that, they just see 0.046875 and 0.09375.
Lord Justice Laws
Good god, why not just change your name to Lawyer McJudgeface
Shouldn’t have left if you wanted to keep the early bird exceptions.
Danes giggling at the Brits tripping over themselves.
Well, Sweden joined the EU in 1995, and still haven’t ditched the Swedish kroner.
So the uk can also “commit” to change to the euro, and basically not do it like others have done
Yeah but that was then, I don’t think the same things apply today, for brexit Britain… I mean do you really want to be part of the club this time?
Also, sweden is just a small, not that internationally important, country. I think that helps them staying away from committing fully.
