Banannas
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Over 95,000 signatures now. Less than 5,000 to go before this petition is considered for debate in parliament. Let's Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK. #RejoinEU #FBPE petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7491…
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@Eddystone506 Net zero is killing the UK through increasing our energy costs. Brexit hasn’t castrated UK growth.
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The UK CANNOT grow meaningfully while it's castrated by Brexit
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@robinthemint It’s in the Rules. New joiners have to join the Euro, Schengen, FoM etc
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This thread demolishes the Brexit scaremongering over the hurdles to rejoining which are far less then they say due to the drafting of the treaties and exceptions already made to existing members who are hardly going to accept discrimination just to block us.
Ben Judah@b_judah
Would 🇬🇧 be forced to join Schengen and the Euro to rejoin 🇪🇺? The question is decisive. According to @YouGov when those conditions are presented support for rejoining declines from 54 to 36%. Below is a thread based off my latest piece for @ArguablyMag showing if you look at the treaties 🇬🇧 would not in fact be forced to actually do so. Politically the path to Europe is open. arguably.uk/p/a-good-rejoi…
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@LizWebsterSBF @b_judah It’s the joining process. New members have to join the Euro, Schengen FoM etc
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The Brexit lot are trying to keep Brexit alive by scaremongering about rejoining the EU forcing the UK to adopt the Euro and Schengen.
As @b_judah points out this isn’t the case.
Ben Judah@b_judah
Since the debate on Britain rejoining the EU has opened up two questions have emerged as central. Would the UK be forced to join the Euro or the passport-free Schengen Area? The truth I explain for @arguablymag, is that if you look closely at the treaties, the UK would have a veto of any implementation of its Schengen membership, as would Ireland who is not in Schengen — which is of course like us committed to an open border on the island of Ireland as per the Good Friday Agreement. The UK also would join the Union with an automatic derogation on Euro membership until it had fulfilled the Maastricht criteria, key bits of which are at their own discretion. If the EU wanted a Rejoin government to win the referendum, it could simply clarify these points before any campaign. Neither of which is a concession but a statement of legal fact. This means a referendum, per polling, is eminently winnable. arguably.uk/p/a-good-rejoi…
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@JohnAClarkeEU You can have a 3rd Referendum, it’s due in 2059. Good Luck!
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Fair enough but if in future a majority of UK citizens want to rejoin then surely that should also be respected? And Parliament will democratically decide.
The Fool of Oxonia@TheFool_of_Oxon
@JohnAClarkeEU @LizWebsterSBF I don’t want to be in the EU. We voted out. Please respect my vote. I want parliament to make my laws.
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@MrLukeGeorge No. The UK is on the Global Stage with our voice, when it’s swallowed up in the EU. Thank you for submitting an argument for Brexit. Nice one.
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The UK should join the EU and the Euro!
Let's take back our seat at the decision making table! Let's get back on the global stage! 🇬🇧🇪🇺💶
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@john4brexit I respect the narrow margin vote based upon blatant lies and misinformation.
I don't understand why any government was so irresponsible not call a 2nd referendum after clarifying what Brexit meant. Or accepting the "No negotiation before Article 50" trap.
It is not gospel!
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Robert Tombs There has never, since Britain became a democracy, been such blatant contempt for a democratic vote telegraph.co.uk/authors/r/rk-r…
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Yes...it would take interest rates 2% lower...mortgages down, more money to spend etc
Jeremy Vine & Daytime on 5@JeremyVineOn5
Would you swap the pound for the Euro in order to rejoin the EU? It's a condition demanded by an EU chief after Labour challengers Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham put a return to the bloc back on the agenda. Is scrapping sterling a price worth paying?
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Brexit was a massive scam and Lord Sugar is right they should all be in prison, life, no parole.
Richard Corbett@RichardGCorbett
“Respecting” the result of a referendum held 10 years ago, when it’s increasingly clear that it was won on the basis of a pack of lies and that Brexit is doing massive damage to Britain’s economy, status & influence in the world, is a total abdication of responsibility.
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@MrLukeGeorge Specific to the cycle, blend and demands of the UK economy as opposed to 26 other EU states not stained to the UK economy. Brainless to want to join the Euro.
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Unelected?
Monetary policy is independent anyway. Nobody elects the BoE governor
GaryB@Bru1g
@MrLukeGeorge Of course not. Adopting the Euro would hand over economic and finacial control and sovereignty to an unelected EU elite and their federalist plans
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@pippip343 Ordinary people want him gone, probably all those with grannies and grandads.
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He’s right and that’s why billionaires and the right wing media want him gone.
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@JHenryCDF It’s no brainier. Absolutely not. Losing control of interest rates would be a disaster.
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Join the Euro for a stable economy?
It’s a no brainer. Yes.
Jeremy Vine & Daytime on 5@JeremyVineOn5
Would you swap the pound for the Euro in order to rejoin the EU? It's a condition demanded by an EU chief after Labour challengers Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham put a return to the bloc back on the agenda. Is scrapping sterling a price worth paying?
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@Bluwhitehoops Your bananas but you can’t spell.
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@EdwardStuart16 Because you ignorant imbecile it would heavily damage the UK economy.
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In an instant and why wouldn’t we to drag this country into the 21st century and leave the flag shaggers desperate to get back to the empire behind!
Jeremy Vine & Daytime on 5@JeremyVineOn5
Would you swap the pound for the Euro in order to rejoin the EU? It's a condition demanded by an EU chief after Labour challengers Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham put a return to the bloc back on the agenda. Is scrapping sterling a price worth paying?
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@crecycler282 @mikegalsworthy Limping to a pathetic 100,000 isn’t a success. It’s pitiful and you’ll get the same answer from the Gov as at 10,000.
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@Bluwhitehoops @mikegalsworthy Nobody is claiming 100,000 signatures means the UK instantly rejoins the EU. The point is to force Parliament to debate an issue that clearly still has prolonged public interest and growing support, including from economists and businesses.
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Two things you need to do to help.
Links in comments.
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@davy_lad @Telegraph Parliament voted to leave the European Union.
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@Telegraph Well the "leave" vote was such a small margin that it wouldn't have passed the threshold for a union going on strike according to the prevailing laws but was accepted by the then Tory government led by Cameron. It was really a farce and has crippled the UK since...
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Sir Keir Starmer’s Government tried to rejoin the EU single market in what would have been a major unravelling of the Brexit deal.
Michael Ellam, Britain’s chief negotiator, proposed that the country rejoin the bloc’s single market for goods in order to deepen economic ties to Brussels as part of wider talks over the past few months.
Find out why EU officials turned down Labour's proposal ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
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@Telegraph I think this would be a fantastic idea. It would bring the prices in the Supermarket shelves back to pre Brexit prices. It costs a hell of a lot more to import food than it did. Those pro Brexit supporters must either be extremely selfish, extremely well off or just plain stupid
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@crecycler282 @mikegalsworthy 100,000 isn’t going to make the Government rejoin the EU.
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@Bluwhitehoops @mikegalsworthy That’s not really how petitions work. A petition isn’t a referendum result, it’s a way of showing there’s enough public support for Parliament to discuss an issue, which at the current rate it almost certainly will.
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@crecycler282 @mikegalsworthy Er your petition isn’t growing. It’s a joke when 17,000,000 have to be for it.
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@Bluwhitehoops @mikegalsworthy If there was no appetite, public polling wouldn’t have shifted and petitions like this wouldn’t keep growing. Major political change doesn’t happen overnight. This is part of getting the country talking about rejoining again.
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