Can’t see that happening regardless of what side you’re on.
I doubt very much that EU countries will accept. They are quite fed up with the brits. Maybe in 2 or 3 generations.
There probably will be another EU ref, but it won’t be within my lifetime and we won’t be getting **very** comfortable deal we had last time.
Guess we better start work on that then, last I checked 52% in an opinion poll is the iron clad will of the people, which must be enacted by the government at any cost?
We were hearing 52% before the referendum too and look how that went. All this means is the population is still as split as it was, half the population still remainers.
If we were to re-join we would not get a good of a deal as we did before and even though it would still be far better than what we have now, the leavers would still throw a fit demanding more.
It might be 52% now ( it doesn’t look like a big enough margin), but would it still be that for a proper referendum?
Shame that we will never get back the highly privileged position that we used to hold 🙁
Fucking Brexit wankers
“52% is too small of a majority to make a decision” -remainers circa 2016
Yeah I don’t think the EU will let the UK back in for the next 20-30 years. At best the UK will get a deal like Norway.
In the ’16 referendum, it was a mistake not to insist on a supermajority. We shouldn’t make the same error again.
Not sure we can call a poll a reversal when all the polls looked like this before the real thing.
Ultimately what this means is ‘UK still just as divided on Brexit’
Only 52. How does a single person still think this was a good idea. Idiot nation.
You mean people aren’t happy in the new land of milk, honey, sunny uplands, soverign fish., secure borders and all those trade deals?
Just hold on till the new year and lap up the delights of an imploding Northern Ireland and the clusterfuck that will be import checks.
Best deal ever, apparently.
What makes them think that the EU wants them back? A lot of bridges have been burned by ~~Britain~~ the Tories.
The other whole fuck up is British citizens living abroad could not vote in the whole process, yet it affects every single UK person living in the EU..
What a shit show
if they just let 16 and over vote in this as it affected us the most, we wouldn’t have a fucking mess
That’s all? Everyone else thinks Brexit has been a good thing? Yeesh.
An opinion poll is not necessarily reflective of how people vote in an actual referendum when the issues are properly debated. This is likely a rage against the government and when you get to an actual decision, people tend to lean to the status quo. Yes, I know that didn’t happen in 2016, but that’s the exception.
And this question is being asked without saying what the deal would be. It won’t be the same one we had in 2015. It’s not even a dead cert that the EU would be open to a re-application at all – Spain would be dicks about Gibraltar for example – but if it was then at the very least we’d be asked to pay £16bn rather than £10bn every year, and sign up (at least in principle) to working towards the Euro and Schengen, which I don’t think even most 2016 Remainers would want.
I don’t think we should have left, but having done so I don’t think we can go back.
Setting aside the accuracy of the poll, I can’t see any way in hell a Conservative government would re-join: it would just be too humiliating.
Labour? I’m not sure there’s the will there either, although it would at least be possible.
The UKIP wankers are still around, so I’m sure they’d be happy to come up with ~~another bunch of lies~~ some more incentives to set people against the EU.
We’d never get in on the same favourable terms we had before, which would put off a lot of people when they actually thought about it.
In the unlikely event of Scotland splitting from the UK, a big chunk of that 52% would vanish.
I think the whole thing should just be reverted since the snakes at Westminster completely conned the public just to win. I love that we have so many benefits living here. I don’t have to worry about being blown up just by walking outside but honestly, the fucking politicians and the law in some areas is a joke.
Apart from the early vaccine stuff, ive seen no benefits to leaving and i even think some of the EU members have passed us in vaccination numbers now too… Can someone give me atleast 5 benefits the general population has gained from brexit?
“certain to vote” down to 59% according to whatukthinks. Apparently there are *slightly* more remain poll fanatics fighting in the hills than Brexiteer enforcers still answering these polls.
It’s gonna have to be 80+ for anything to actually happen
66% *of those voting* in a knowingly binding referendum I could get behind even if it didn’t go my way. Anything less than 2/3, especially in what we were told was advisory/non-binding, is just plain shithousing.
And as Farage said, many times, the Brexit lot would just keep pushing and pushing until they got their way anyway.
Not British. Brexit is absolutely tragic for so many reasons, but it’s disgusting how so many Brits (fellow Europeans) lost important rights and freedoms seemingly overnight. Britain isn’t an optimal Britain without the EU and vice versa. I hope to see the day when Britain and the EU reunite, sooner rather than later.
Cool, they can keep wanting that as our economy falls apart
Yes but none of these fuckers will get off their arses and actually vote.
During the original vote when people complained about the result I queried if they voted and the majority apparently couldn’t find 10 minutes in their busy day…
100% of EU don’t want them rejoining. Some humble pie requires consuming, that’s the sort of ‘have cake and eat it’ scenario needed.
Keep those wankers out of the EU!
We don’t need them.
We will just invite an other poor pseudo democratic country to take your place.
What the fuck for? That article is a heap of shit. The whole world is tanking. Being in the EU isn’t going to make it tank any less.
Looking for the actual poll. Savanta Comres have a post from Nevember but that says 53%.
It doesn’t give us the core data or the method. E.G I don’t know whether this is a survey of members (like YouGuv) or a random poll.
We had a wide range of concessions before we left, there’s no way we’d be able to rejoin on the same terms. Europe wants to punish us for leaving, and would extract a heavy toll if we tried to return.
As a Remain voter, part of me is glad Brexit happened.
This past year has been a moment of reckoning for British employers. Labour is no longer expendable and watching the fallout of companies (particularly ones with reputations for treating workers like shit) as they struggle to hire is glorious. Globalisation may have driven down prices but for the labour market it’s been awful to have your job replaced by overseas outsourcers or by cheap immigrant labour that can be paid below minimum wage through legal loopholes. We are now in a situation where companies have to *fight* to retain staff.
As for the current climate, think about it this way… why would people stick to their office job paying £17k – £25k a year when they could get a HGV licence and get paid the equivalent of £50k a year to drive lorries around? More people are eventually going to take that plunge as the labour shortage tightens and inflation skyrockets.
Don’t get me wrong, we’re much better off in the EU and my hope is that the big corporations soon turn against the Conservatives for what they’ve done. But Brexit and COVID have probably been the best thing to happen for UK workers’ rights since the EU Working Time Directive.
With all the shit show still only 52%? That’s just sad
Well too late now we have to suffer thanks to the insufferably gullible idiots who voted leave
52%? An overwhelming majority, we must immediately proceed to the most extreme form of re-join available.
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Can’t see that happening regardless of what side you’re on.
I doubt very much that EU countries will accept. They are quite fed up with the brits. Maybe in 2 or 3 generations.
There probably will be another EU ref, but it won’t be within my lifetime and we won’t be getting **very** comfortable deal we had last time.
Guess we better start work on that then, last I checked 52% in an opinion poll is the iron clad will of the people, which must be enacted by the government at any cost?
We were hearing 52% before the referendum too and look how that went. All this means is the population is still as split as it was, half the population still remainers.
If we were to re-join we would not get a good of a deal as we did before and even though it would still be far better than what we have now, the leavers would still throw a fit demanding more.
It might be 52% now ( it doesn’t look like a big enough margin), but would it still be that for a proper referendum?
Shame that we will never get back the highly privileged position that we used to hold 🙁
Fucking Brexit wankers
“52% is too small of a majority to make a decision” -remainers circa 2016
Yeah I don’t think the EU will let the UK back in for the next 20-30 years. At best the UK will get a deal like Norway.
In the ’16 referendum, it was a mistake not to insist on a supermajority. We shouldn’t make the same error again.
Not sure we can call a poll a reversal when all the polls looked like this before the real thing.
Ultimately what this means is ‘UK still just as divided on Brexit’
Only 52. How does a single person still think this was a good idea. Idiot nation.
You mean people aren’t happy in the new land of milk, honey, sunny uplands, soverign fish., secure borders and all those trade deals?
Just hold on till the new year and lap up the delights of an imploding Northern Ireland and the clusterfuck that will be import checks.
Best deal ever, apparently.
What makes them think that the EU wants them back? A lot of bridges have been burned by ~~Britain~~ the Tories.
The other whole fuck up is British citizens living abroad could not vote in the whole process, yet it affects every single UK person living in the EU..
What a shit show
if they just let 16 and over vote in this as it affected us the most, we wouldn’t have a fucking mess
That’s all? Everyone else thinks Brexit has been a good thing? Yeesh.
An opinion poll is not necessarily reflective of how people vote in an actual referendum when the issues are properly debated. This is likely a rage against the government and when you get to an actual decision, people tend to lean to the status quo. Yes, I know that didn’t happen in 2016, but that’s the exception.
And this question is being asked without saying what the deal would be. It won’t be the same one we had in 2015. It’s not even a dead cert that the EU would be open to a re-application at all – Spain would be dicks about Gibraltar for example – but if it was then at the very least we’d be asked to pay £16bn rather than £10bn every year, and sign up (at least in principle) to working towards the Euro and Schengen, which I don’t think even most 2016 Remainers would want.
I don’t think we should have left, but having done so I don’t think we can go back.
Setting aside the accuracy of the poll, I can’t see any way in hell a Conservative government would re-join: it would just be too humiliating.
Labour? I’m not sure there’s the will there either, although it would at least be possible.
The UKIP wankers are still around, so I’m sure they’d be happy to come up with ~~another bunch of lies~~ some more incentives to set people against the EU.
We’d never get in on the same favourable terms we had before, which would put off a lot of people when they actually thought about it.
In the unlikely event of Scotland splitting from the UK, a big chunk of that 52% would vanish.
I think the whole thing should just be reverted since the snakes at Westminster completely conned the public just to win. I love that we have so many benefits living here. I don’t have to worry about being blown up just by walking outside but honestly, the fucking politicians and the law in some areas is a joke.
Apart from the early vaccine stuff, ive seen no benefits to leaving and i even think some of the EU members have passed us in vaccination numbers now too… Can someone give me atleast 5 benefits the general population has gained from brexit?
“certain to vote” down to 59% according to whatukthinks. Apparently there are *slightly* more remain poll fanatics fighting in the hills than Brexiteer enforcers still answering these polls.
It’s gonna have to be 80+ for anything to actually happen
66% *of those voting* in a knowingly binding referendum I could get behind even if it didn’t go my way. Anything less than 2/3, especially in what we were told was advisory/non-binding, is just plain shithousing.
And as Farage said, many times, the Brexit lot would just keep pushing and pushing until they got their way anyway.
Not British. Brexit is absolutely tragic for so many reasons, but it’s disgusting how so many Brits (fellow Europeans) lost important rights and freedoms seemingly overnight. Britain isn’t an optimal Britain without the EU and vice versa. I hope to see the day when Britain and the EU reunite, sooner rather than later.
Cool, they can keep wanting that as our economy falls apart
Yes but none of these fuckers will get off their arses and actually vote.
During the original vote when people complained about the result I queried if they voted and the majority apparently couldn’t find 10 minutes in their busy day…
100% of EU don’t want them rejoining. Some humble pie requires consuming, that’s the sort of ‘have cake and eat it’ scenario needed.
Keep those wankers out of the EU!
We don’t need them.
We will just invite an other poor pseudo democratic country to take your place.
What the fuck for? That article is a heap of shit. The whole world is tanking. Being in the EU isn’t going to make it tank any less.
Looking for the actual poll. Savanta Comres have a post from Nevember but that says 53%.
[all I want for Christmas is EU](https://savanta.com/view/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-eu/)
It doesn’t give us the core data or the method. E.G I don’t know whether this is a survey of members (like YouGuv) or a random poll.
We had a wide range of concessions before we left, there’s no way we’d be able to rejoin on the same terms. Europe wants to punish us for leaving, and would extract a heavy toll if we tried to return.
As a Remain voter, part of me is glad Brexit happened.
This past year has been a moment of reckoning for British employers. Labour is no longer expendable and watching the fallout of companies (particularly ones with reputations for treating workers like shit) as they struggle to hire is glorious. Globalisation may have driven down prices but for the labour market it’s been awful to have your job replaced by overseas outsourcers or by cheap immigrant labour that can be paid below minimum wage through legal loopholes. We are now in a situation where companies have to *fight* to retain staff.
As for the current climate, think about it this way… why would people stick to their office job paying £17k – £25k a year when they could get a HGV licence and get paid the equivalent of £50k a year to drive lorries around? More people are eventually going to take that plunge as the labour shortage tightens and inflation skyrockets.
Don’t get me wrong, we’re much better off in the EU and my hope is that the big corporations soon turn against the Conservatives for what they’ve done. But Brexit and COVID have probably been the best thing to happen for UK workers’ rights since the EU Working Time Directive.
With all the shit show still only 52%? That’s just sad
Well too late now we have to suffer thanks to the insufferably gullible idiots who voted leave
52%? An overwhelming majority, we must immediately proceed to the most extreme form of re-join available.