andrewducker | Interesting Links for 31-05-2023

4. Not from the UK, not a UK resident, but the link-blurb (ie, what you're saying while linking, not sure of the proper term or even a good term describing it) doesn't appear to be reflected by the article you linked to?

By which I mean that I get the sense from the article that Starmer is being pragmatic, in the sense of "Wish Brexit didn't happen; it did, though, and so now we have to 'play the ball as it lies', and from that perspective is much less clear that rejoining the EU (and the concessions that would have to be made as opposed to the terms under which the UK was a member) would be in the UK's interest now." In short, "the UK will get a worse deal than it previously had, and that worse deal might not be worth it". Is there something I'm missing?

Edited (adding an end quotation mark I had forgotten.) 2023-06-04 13:32 (UTC)

He said:
"Britain’s future is outside the EU. Not in the single market, not in the customs union, not with a return to freedom of movement. Those arguments are in the past, where they belong."

And as someone who is fully in favour of both a customs union, and a return to freedom of movement, both of which would be entirely possible, I will not vote for someone who has unneccesarily ruled them out.

Ah, okay. I see what you mean.

I do agree that we're not going back into the EU in the next decade or two. And that when we do the deal we get will not be as good. I am hoping that we will do so, once it is obvious enough to the general population that it is still worth it, but I don't expect it soon.

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