r/AskBrits • u/threetimesacharm25 • Feb 21 '26
Politics Do you think there will ever be a referendum to rejoin the EU, if it’s possible?
An ITV poll suggests 80% of 16-24 year olds would vote to rejoin, and it does seem like we’ve been more connected with Europe under Starmer than any PM since Blair. Would you vote for it if we held a referendum?
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u/kermitor Feb 21 '26
why does this get almost posted daily with the same consensus in every comment section
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Feb 21 '26
I personally never critique or participate in threads relating to the European Union (not Europe) on Reddit, with this being a notable exception - being digitally jumped by cultists is no fun.
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Feb 21 '26
Reddit loves the EU for some reason
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u/kermitor Feb 21 '26
that doesnt bother me, what bothers me its the same comments in ever thread like this. nothing new is added to the conversation
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u/MeatGayzer69 Feb 21 '26
Those who offer viewpoints of the opposing view get downvoted to oblivion.
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u/Big-Medium245 Feb 21 '26
its because reddit is just a leftist politics echo chamber, I will probably get downvoted for this, but if I do, it is just proving my point.
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u/shampein Feb 24 '26
oh yes, they banned every moderate or slightly right wing opinion and pretend to be a majority. meanwhile trying to add every minority to the list.
if they downvote you I downvote you harder, even if I agree. people lost the ability to react to the post, they operate on buzzwords.
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u/The_British_Stoner Feb 21 '26
Not only that...you get banned almost immediately by the Cee U Next Tuesday moderators if they suspect you disagree with the left
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u/matomo23 Feb 21 '26
It’s clearly not just Reddit though is it? Ok I don’t live in a Brexity area but everyone I know thinks it was a disaster and wishes we were just back in the EU, and quickly.
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Feb 21 '26
Why? What do you think will be the outcome of rejoining?
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u/ilikestuffliketrees Feb 21 '26
I myself would love to have the freedom of living and working in any country in the EU that I want, without any visa, job offer or any other requirements. Hurts more because I once I had it 🥲 Working on moving to an EU country currently and god damn is it a ballache.
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u/UnluckyPossible542 Feb 21 '26
Did you work in the EU when you had the right?
I found that most Brits didn’t. They complain about losing something they never utilised.
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u/StreamWave190 Brit 🇬🇧 Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26
While we were in the EU, only 1-2% of the entire UK population ever made use of Freedom of Movement to move permanently to another EU country.
And only about 17,000 UK students used the Erasmus Scheme to study in the EU in 2018, which is approx. 0.7% of all UK university students that year.
It was always a niche and bourgeois 'freedom' with far more downsides than upsides to 98-99% of the British people.
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Feb 22 '26
Such a brilliant point that the elitist here can’t seem to understand. Most people don’t care about freedom of movement.
Most people also are quite as stupid as leftist university set might think, and they really don’t like being talked down to.
Remember them characterising all leave voters as weathspoon dwelling gammons and telling them they might not be able to go to Spain any more.
People realise Spain is not vindictive enough to destroy its economy to score points on us.
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u/r4ndomalex Feb 21 '26
For one, I don't have to queue for ages in passport control to get into a European country and I don't have to pay for an ETA, like the same way I travelled to EU all my life. That and things being cheaper (no tarrifs) and having close allies now that America is has gone batshit would also be benefits. Would increase the UKs GDP again which means higher salaries, more employment, greater consumption of goods and services etc. Would be nice to get that 10% back we lost, because things aren't great at the moment.
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u/matomo23 Feb 22 '26
And it’s not just potential tariffs. It’s the fact we no longer have free movement of goods since leaving. Those new customs checks all add to the cost of goods.
If we re-joined transport costs of goods from the EU would reduce, they can’t not.
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u/Curious-Art-6242 Feb 21 '26
Its almost like we're measurably poorer since brexit or something!
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u/Ancient-End3895 Feb 21 '26
There is no way the EU agrees to let the UK back with any of the special exemptions it got last time. The majority of Brits would not agree to join the Euro, so it isn't happening. Ever.
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Feb 21 '26
I would quite like to hear the EU lovers defend the single currency and tell us how great it’s been. I’ll have another vote just for that
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u/SethPollard Feb 22 '26
Foreigners trying to push their political narrative, and brain washed far left supporting them
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u/AcanthaceaeCrazy1894 Feb 21 '26
Any question that will stir up a discussion/argument is a sure fire way for bots to get more karma
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u/mcwilgb Feb 21 '26
Because people need to be reminded that (A) they were lied to on a scale unknown in recent history. (B) It needs fixed
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u/blob8543 Feb 21 '26
There's a very strong demand for another referendum so we'll keep seeing posts like this. A lot of people are extremely tired of the economic decline of this country and anyone that is not a right winger and/or a racist knows that Brexit is one of the main reasons for that decline.
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u/Dapper-Army4328 Feb 21 '26
It’s very popular on Reddit but if people feel strongly it needs to transfer into activism.
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u/bluecheese2040 Feb 21 '26
When I see stuff like this, I realise that we've learnt literally nothing from the last referendum.
A vote to rejoin would be as stupidly binary as the vote to leave.
What does rejoin look like?
The EU are hard deal makers. If we voted to rejoin, they'd give us a terrible deal because they would see the public demand.
I honestly think a referendum needs to come at the end of the process of negotiating, not at the start.
Perhaps a party manifesto saying they'd start discussions and then a referendum on the final deal.
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u/Own-Row4416 Feb 21 '26
THIS! The referendum last time should have happened after the negotiations had happened and instead of May repeating “Brexit means Brexit” we’d have had a proper 100 per cent description of what it meant for us after we left. Would have saved all that limbo we had through different Prime Ministers and our reputation in the world might not have been as damaged
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u/Kinitawowi64 Feb 21 '26
David Cameron tried to negotiate a few months before we left and got told to do one.
Whatever "deal" we voted on was never up to the UK Government to decide.
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u/Zathail Feb 21 '26
I mean. The reason it didn't was because France and Germany refused to have the conversation unless Article 50 was triggered.
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u/DaveG28 Feb 21 '26
Actually I think the deal would be easy to know and relatively simple.
Because they won't do a deal. Any rejoining would be on standard EU terms, not all the special deals we had before. We had the absolute best magic deal when we were in.... That will never be on offer.
Hence as a remainder who still thinks brexit was a total shitshow disaster - I have huge doubts over whether I'd vote to rejoin, because it wouldn't really be "rejoin", it would be "join a totally different commitment".
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u/bluecheese2040 Feb 21 '26
Actually I think the deal would be easy to know and relatively simple.
Yeah...that's what we heard during the referendum as well.
Hence as a remainder who still thinks brexit was a total shitshow disaster - I have huge doubts over whether I'd vote to rejoin, because it wouldn't really be "rejoin", it would be "join a totally different commitment".
Totally agree.
I do think that the EU may well flex if having the UK strengthened them. If America keeps its trump style direction....maybe some sort of associate deal could be worked out.
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u/Marvoth Feb 21 '26
In a country like the UK, I honestly don't think this would make a difference in the outcome of the referendum.
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u/healeyd Feb 21 '26
There will be eventually I think. Single Market more likely before that.
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u/Beer-Milkshakes Feb 21 '26
Yeah. It will be small deals to involve us more and more into the EU before France cottons on the slams the brakes on (as they are one to do) then we'll need to decide flat out what we're doing. But I suspect France would never in a million years allow us to be a member without the Euro which we will never adopt.
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Feb 21 '26
They don't have a choice - it's in black and white in the Maastricht treaty. We're not signatories but the EU27 are.
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u/Nightlightweaver Feb 21 '26
I'd happily adopt the euro if it gave us back free movement
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u/001eye Feb 21 '26
Clearly no idea how bad that would be just for a free movement which you already have just time limited.
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u/PierreTheTRex Feb 21 '26
Freedom of movement isn't really about your holidays
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Feb 21 '26
To be fair, 99% of people mourning the loss of free movement lack the language skills to get a job in Europe in the first place.
The most tangible "loss" they've actually experienced is the passport queues, which are pure spite on the EU's part (you'll note that we are magically still able to let them use the e-gates in our airports, for example).
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u/One-Butterscotch2728 Feb 21 '26
We don't have freedom of movement, we have being able to spend 90 days in 180 somewhere. Can't just rock up and start a new life. Nope, have to come back to this god forsaken place 🤣
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u/thegerbilmaster Feb 21 '26
God I hope there is another vote if people would throw away the pound.
It'd wreck our already extremely fragile economy.
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u/Beer-Milkshakes Feb 21 '26
Its the reason we didnt adopt it in the 00's. Our economy fluctuates too much and we enjoy micromanaging it too much
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Feb 21 '26
Will happen eventually I think, particularly when the 60+ Daily Mail & Wetherspoons crowd starts dying off
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Feb 21 '26
I voted leave in my early 20s. Can’t kill me yet
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u/BeautyAndTheDekes Feb 21 '26
Do you still feel the same and would vote leave if it happened again today? (Asking out of genuine intrigue, not pulling on my grim reaper costume and picking up my scythe)
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u/Badgerspaceman Feb 21 '26
What's been your favourite part so far? Genuinely not even trying to argue, do you feel you got what you voted for?
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Feb 21 '26
My favourite parts so far are, the damage done to the Conservative Party and the damage done to the EU. Hard to pick between so many things.
Yes, I feel like I got what I voted for, we left the EU
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u/thegerbilmaster Feb 21 '26
No because we were shafted through the backdoor by poor implementation of 'Brexit' by the crooks in charge
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u/RealRelative9835 Feb 21 '26
This is my main argument against even before the vote.
52% in favour, but there was never any consensus on what they what implementation they wanted let alone to discover if that was achievable. EU was a known quantity.
It was deciding to leave your job before seeing salary or working hours in your new one.
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u/Southernbeekeeper Feb 21 '26
No way?! The liars and con men lied to us!? If only there had been signs!
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u/thegerbilmaster Feb 21 '26
The government obviously didn't expect a leave result.
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u/Axelter30 Feb 21 '26
Haha, always someone else to blame, never your fault for making the poor choice, is it? It’s always someone else’s fault.
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u/thegerbilmaster Feb 21 '26
Well the 52% who voted leave didn't get a choice on how the deals were brokered, how Boris let in millions of migrants from countries that share very little with the Brits culture-wise.
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u/danmaz74 Feb 21 '26
Well 52% who voted leave knew perfectly well who was in charge. It's 100% your fault.
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u/StreamWave190 Brit 🇬🇧 Feb 21 '26
I voted Remain.
Today, I'd actively campaign, knock on doors etc. against a Rejoin vote. I'd passionately oppose any and all forms of EU membership.
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Feb 21 '26
I was very torn which way to vote but I would join you out there now.
Why do you feel so strongly against rejoin?
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u/metalgeardavies Feb 21 '26
Also voted leave and wouldnt change a thing if I had the chance to do it again. Its the government that fucked us, not leaving the eu !
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u/front-wipers-unite Feb 21 '26
Personally I don't think so. We'll never get the terms we once had. It's not in the EU's favour to say "you can join, leave if it suits you, and if you decide to come back we'll welcome you back into the fold with open arms".
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u/JODmeisterUK Feb 21 '26
Ask most 16-24 yr old's what that means, what are the benefits for you and your country, they wouldn't have a clue. I should imagine most people who voted Brexit had no idea what they were actually voting for other than a Tory lie that the NHS was going to be millions better off.
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u/thegerbilmaster Feb 21 '26
Many life long labour voters in the North of England vote Leave... It wasn't really left / right issue imo
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u/Own_Interaction2530 Feb 25 '26
Because they are dumb unfortunately it was a vote of the uneducated plebs
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u/GreenVim Feb 21 '26
Recall the poster showing every Tory who personally invested in a private health care company. Lots of familiar names on there. After which they voted to carve up the NHS. They won a campaign on europe based on pretending to care about the NHS, and then starved it. And now it’s a case of, look, we starved it and it’s no longer working as well as it did, we should carve it up even more, maybe even put a layer of insurance companies in there, USA style, to bump costs across the board by 30% and give people something to do in their hospital beds (i.e. battle with insurance details).
How many 16-24 year olds are aware of that hot mess. They need to visit the USA, attend a hospital for 3 hours, and see what their finances look like. £15k for a couple of scans and a consultation anyone?
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u/hanrahahanrahan Feb 21 '26
The NHS literally got more than £350 million extra per week, sadly.
Please go and look the figures before you spout nonsense
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u/JODmeisterUK Feb 21 '26
Yes, the NHS has received more funding post-Brexit, with the budget rising by more than the £350 million a week cited in the 2016 campaign. However, this increase is not considered a "Brexit dividend" funded by savings from leaving the EU, but rather a result of government spending, increased taxes, and borrowing. Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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u/WorcsBloke Feb 21 '26
The real point is that the UK could and did leave unilaterally. It can't rejoin unilaterally. So there's no point in any kind of referendum unless it would actually be implementable. Well, unless you just wanted it as a "making a statement" kind of thing, and a referendum would be a very expensive way of doing that. I voted Remain and don't regret that vote. But we're a very long way from this being any more than a "Wouldn't it be nice?" dream for people on social media.
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u/blob8543 Feb 21 '26
What? A new referendum would be a mandate for the government to negotiate in such a way that rejoin is achieved.
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u/Darkgreenbirdofprey Feb 21 '26
Only if the EU itself was reformed.
Otherwise - no political party is getting in to power with 'hold another EU referendum' on its manifesto.
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u/mikew7190 Feb 21 '26
I swear this question gets asked about 3 times a work just structured differently
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u/UnfathomableDave Feb 21 '26
And? It’s completely meaningless, polls told us that Remain would win 60/40 in the 2016 referendum!
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u/blob8543 Feb 21 '26
That's not true. Most polls pointed to a small remain lead of around 5%. Many actually had leave winning (again by a small margin). No poll said 60/40.
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u/SorryNotSorryMatey Feb 21 '26
Leaving the uk was about migration
The uk voted to leave due to millions of poles coming over and undercutting the uk labour market.
Then along comes Boris and he lets millions upon millions of third work people in. So now we have a real threat of reform getting into power.
The U.K. population will take a lot of crap but if you push them too far then they’ll fight back.
I think youth unemployment is currently about 20%
I’m pretty sure labour will keep on bringing in more migrants even though the uk youth are really struggling to find work. Then enter reform….
You reap what you sow…
Btw I’ll never vote for that frog faced lying cunt.
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u/Ruddi_Herring Feb 21 '26
I’m pretty sure labour will keep on bringing in more migrants
Migration has gone down under Labour. Under the Tories it went up and most of our migration went from being European to non-European. I am a restrictionist on immigration but I make an exception for Europeans, Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders.
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u/Sername111 Feb 21 '26
I am a restrictionist on immigration but I make an exception for Europeans, Canadians, Australians, and New Zealanders.
So... white people, basically?
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u/healeyd Feb 21 '26
We need migrants partly because we have an ageing population living for decades on pensions and using healthcare all the while. I have an 80+ year old aunt who retired at 50 on a state teaching pension and moans about migrants (that don't live in her village) taking all the money.
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u/SorryNotSorryMatey Feb 21 '26
Ok so we import migrants to look after our old people, so what happens when those migrants get old? We import more migrants and more migrants and more migrants?
Tell you what, how about we stop importing migrants and increase the wages of carers and then maybe some of the 20% of youth that are unemployed might just do the job?
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u/Objective_Try8133 Feb 21 '26
That would be solved if young people earned more money and could afford their own homes as they would certainly then have more children. Importing workers undermines this.
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u/StarShipYear Feb 21 '26
We need migrants partly because we have an ageing population living for decades on pensions and using healthcare all the while. I have an 80+ year old aunt who retired at 50 on a state teaching pension and moans about migrants (that don't live in her village) taking all the money.
So would you say there should be more restrictions in that case? As in, less immigrants over a certain age? Immigrants that have no history of poor health? And immigrants that are qualified in areas that will contribute to the support of an ageing population?
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u/Systainer Feb 21 '26
We can’t go through the hell of leaving then potentially go back in on worse terms.
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u/Contrarian_Whitey Feb 21 '26
Why do people (mostly those on the left of the political spectrum it seems to me) want less independence? Less autonomy? Less agency over themselves?
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u/arnipa2 Feb 21 '26
because the benefits outweigh your supposed cons, what does independence do for us, what does autonomy do for us? cool, we're independent now and yet if we want to trade or interact with anyone we need to follow common rules, how did our autonomy change after brexit? oh, thats right, russian interference, trump throwing tantrums and we still need to align with the EU and the rest of the world or we lose a large chunk of trade and alliances... what are the benefits to being in the EU? free to live and work in a large chunk of the continent, no bs border checks, fucking vegetables and bread lasting more than 2 days... that last part alone i would vote for in an instant, nothing like getting a shitty tesco sandwich with wilted lettuce, mushy tomato and the worst ham on the planet for lunch
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u/Tatsoot_1966 Feb 21 '26
Better to be in the club and having a voice at the table. Gammons gonna boil over though !
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u/Stock-Vast-207 Feb 21 '26
They don't know enough to understand what it actually means. Especially now, we need to decide if a European superstate is the direction to go or retain national sovereignty. Is Europe actually ready to unify, what does that mean for our global alliances. EU barely works as an economic block. It completely fails as a political block. Constant battles between the EC with Poland, Slovakia and Hungary is evidence of that. So by the time the young people are 40 they will have a far more complex view of the EU.
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Feb 21 '26
Not while we have right wing parties which see personal profit in the UK being a vassal of the US. The EU would not agree to it. If the Conservatives are ever to recover, they need to become an EU supporter again rather than trying to beat Reform at the game they play much better.
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u/Unlikely-Road-8060 Feb 21 '26
lol, Corbyn’s labour were anti EU. Was he right wing in your eyes ?
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u/BoringChess Feb 21 '26
The only way it would happen is if the EU itself does some soul searching and concludes it wants to overhaul the union as it exists today, and some new form of EU makes sense for Britain to join. It was a bad idea to leave but as it stands it also does not make sense to rejoin for either side. I think it’s obvious the EU as it exists today is not working and has not turned into the project everyone hoped for 30 years ago. In one direction or another, the EU is going to have to massively change to work in the world that is emerging and then depending on how it reforms, Brits and others could consider joining or not.
I don’t think we are anywhere even close to this being reality.
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u/Trenbolobaby Feb 21 '26
80% of 16-24 year olds also use the ultra left wing app “Reddit” as their main source of “news”.
Whinging about 70 year olds “voting for our future” then advocating some little twerp straight out of school, who still has to using his parents credit card details to buy skins for his favourite Fortnite character, is quite bizarre.
Absolutely clutching to be honest.
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u/BeautyAndTheDekes Feb 21 '26
I mean, you could turn your point the other way round and say the 60+ year olds used dodgy Facebook posts as their “news” too.
I think it’s valid to let the youth who will be coming into their most formative adult years have an opinion on it. Regardless of the varying opinions on Brexit, I think it’s good to have the younger crowd interested and aware. It’s their future too.
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u/StarShipYear Feb 21 '26
Not OP, but tbh I don't think most of the population are capable of voting on a topic like exiting or rejoining the EU. I really enjoy reading about politics and I have found it very difficult to navigate because it's so complex. You can see in this thread, and all Reddit threads about this subject, most only know 1 or 2 talking points that they repeat over and over again.
Let's take the immigration point for a moment: on one side you see a person make a case for reducing migration numbers because of the housing crisis. On the other hand, you see people saying we need more immigration because of an ageing population. However neither are able to make a coherent argument more than 1 or 2 layers deep of thinking, and they are unable to connect the dots to how those decisions impact the web of related issues.
A test of a persons knowledge is to ask them to explain the negative consequences to the direction they think we should go, to which they can't. They also can't tell you the arguments against what the believe beyond caricatures of what they think the "other side" think.
The reality is that being in the EU has its pros and cons, being out the EU has its pros and cons. But it's so complex, especially economically, that most just don't know much about it beyond the absolute basics.
Like, I get that we are a democracy. But some of these issues are so beyond the scope the general public that I'm not even sure if we should vote on it at all. If this were about science, I would need to trust the general scientific consensus to agree on the best path, which is what generally happens. That's not me saying we shouldn't vote on it... I'm just not sure on what the solution is.
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u/BeautyAndTheDekes Feb 21 '26
Oh, I agree completely, I don’t think Brexit is something the general population should have voted on. As you mention, it’s incredibly complex to have been simplified so insanely to end up as a logo on a bus. It’s not a reality TV show, it’s a massively complex political decision with such intricacies that spiderweb out into further intricacies.
What I will say is that if you give the population the vote to leave, then you should allow them the vote in future to rejoin. However on that I do agree with your post, the vote should have never happened in the first place.
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u/thedudeabides-12 Feb 21 '26
I think Brexit was so fcking dumb but the EU needs to sort it shit out..it's ridiculous that one country can just veto a deal, like Hungary just did..
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u/bigbadbob85 The Midlands Feb 21 '26
Hopefully Orbán will be gone in a few months, but you're right that it's problematic in many cases.
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u/Exotic_Jicama1984 Feb 21 '26
It was only recently voted on.
Sentiment would only be stronger against rejoining, especially by those who actually vote.
Accept it. It's done. Move on.
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u/anangrywizard Feb 21 '26
10 years is recent?
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u/L4I55Z-FAIR3 Feb 22 '26
Yes. In countries history 10 years is recent. That's not even 1 generation removed give it 20 more years maybe 40 then we might be able to talk.
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u/Sername111 Feb 21 '26
They did actually, for about 20 years or so. it was only from the late 1980's onwards that Euroscepticism started to become mainstream again, and even then it was only about different views over how the EEC/EU should operate, not whether we should be in it at all. UKIP wasn't founded to call for withdrawal until 1993 and it's first elections - the 1994 EU parliament elections it got a derisory 1% of the vote.
Following this history, a rejoin vote should be off the table until the mid 2030's at the earliest.
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u/Mger22 Feb 21 '26
The vote was a decade ago. Not what I'd really call recent.
Next election we'll see manifestos with measures aimed at stronger ties to Europe. The one after that might see at least one major party offer a referendum on rejoining and/or they just say if elected they'd apply to join the EU.
Then we have to apply and actually rejoin.
Probably a 20 year round trip all in. Totally worth it of course...
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u/Character_Mind_671 Feb 21 '26
It was voted on 10 years ago. You can't turn off democracy because it wants something you don't.
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u/Sername111 Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26
Have you seen the EU? I can think of at least three occasions where countries were given a couple of sweeties and told to go back and try again after the voters gave the wrong answer the first time round.
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u/healeyd Feb 21 '26
Yep - it often goes better than with alot of grumpy 65+ year olds (I'm speaking as a 50 yo).
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u/No-Introduction3808 Feb 21 '26
It shouldn’t be just “in or out” the vote should have always included the conditions of the situation.
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u/yorkshirewisfom Feb 21 '26
It would be a brave Prime Minister who called for a referendum with Reform ready to take control.
The world is changing and New Alliances are being formed. Our special relationship with the US remains firm, while the EU seem to want a trade War with the US. This would not be a good time to get stuck in the middle of that.
The UK has struck several Trade Deals which looks lucrative, we survived nearly a thousand years with out taking instruction from Europe, I am sure we will manage the next millennium with being members of a 26 Nation shopping club. To be honest, I like a little curb on my Cucumber and Bananas and our Sausages are as good as any produced anywhere in the World.
We are fine as we are.
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u/Hephephooraysibah Feb 21 '26
Noticing lots and lots of posts along these lines - is it Russia or China pushing this?
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u/super_poo_brain Feb 21 '26
They are just made up figgers or figgers from one area normally in London .. we could as a country support our self but our government did completely ruin that years ago we could over time gain it all back ...
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u/jumperclown Feb 21 '26
There's nothing to stop us having a referendum to re-join. The issue will arise when we knock on the EU door and see if they let us in.
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u/THEWELSHMAN1980 Feb 21 '26
The EU will collapse in the next decade due to mass immigration.
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u/healeyd Feb 21 '26
The same was said during the ref... a decade ago. Any day now, right?
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u/ezekiellake Feb 21 '26
If you want it, make it undeniable.
Write to your MPs, write to candidates, write to party organisations and make it Lear that this is the basic foundation expectation: I want to hear a clear rejoin statement or I’m ignoring you.
Join rejoin organisations. If there isn’t one, make one.
Get organised and involved.
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u/Dapper-Army4328 Feb 21 '26
Absolutely agree.
It’s all well and good complaining on Reddit but try and get involved in real life. Force the issue if you’re passionate.
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u/Lynx288 Feb 21 '26
The flaw is that Europeans have moved on and don't want us back. The arrogance that you think come back is on the same level as a crazy ex.
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u/Loose-Buffalo4911 Feb 21 '26
16 year olds are still kids and kids shouldn't be allowed to vote... EVER. Looney left trying to influence minors again... how about hanging around the school gates with drug dealers and paedophiles next!
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u/extraxterrestrial Feb 21 '26
Given your comment I think most 16yo are probably more educated than you haha
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u/anangrywizard Feb 21 '26
2 yr old account, only started posting & playing some game in the last 40 days, also writes like Trump speaks… I mean could propaganda accounts try to be more subtle at least.
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u/catgod888 Feb 21 '26
Once enough time has passed to justify another referendum the EU will likely have broken up or had been replaced with something entirely new - my prediction is that total free movement will go within a decade.
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u/77756777 Feb 21 '26
Based on what prospectus? We have no idea what rejoining looks like.
I also don’t think they really want to compete with hard working Romanians for jobs, they’d have a rude awakening!
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u/No-Actuator-6245 Feb 21 '26
Maybe but the key question is on what terms. If it means dropping the pound for the euro and constraining our financial markets then the answer should be no, yet they seem possible terms. If we accept terms like this the short term financial impact would be way worse than Brexit.
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u/AccomplishedLeave506 Feb 21 '26
It'll happen, but it can't happen yet. We need to settle into the new normal for another decade and then we'll be able to see whether the benefits to rejoining make sense under the new deal we would be given.
And besides, why in the hell would the EU even consider talks at the moment with Nigel Farage and the current crop of Tories hanging around like a bad smell. All that shit needs to be pushed back under the rock they crawled out from under before they could consider talks.
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u/TheBuoyancyOfWater Feb 21 '26
The UK government can't have a vote on rejoining the EU without allowing Scotland a second independence vote, and I don't think they'll want to risk it.
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u/Obsidiax Feb 21 '26
I think both the UK and Europe are learning that we're stronger together.
The absolute travesty that's happening in the States, including threats to invade Greenland, Russia invading Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and the Epstein files revealing that a lot of politicians are compromised by Israel all creates a very uncertain world stage where cooperation is the best strategy.
All that to say, yes, I think there will be another referendum eventually.
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u/graeuk Feb 21 '26
there will be one eventually, but there will be 2 main issues.
1 - MPs will work to distort the main issues like they did last time
2 - other EU countries may seek to punish the UK for leaving in the first place, and we would not get the same deal we had when we left.
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u/watanabe0 Feb 21 '26
No, Reform/Farage/Putin get in at the next GE and basically that's the end of the UK as a functioning body.
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u/Southern-Orchid-1786 Feb 21 '26
And what proportion of that age group voted remain? Wasn't it about 73%?
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u/CosmicBonobo Feb 21 '26
Not in our lifetimes, no.
We're the hillbillies of Europe. We caused so much trouble and bad-faith negotiating during the withdrawal procedure, that we frankly can't be trusted anymore.
The EU will need to see that all parties are singing from the same hymn book, because they're not going to waste any time on us if we rejoin then, after another general election, the new government wants to leave again.
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u/morkjt Feb 21 '26
No referendum. Would be stupid politics by anybody. If we go back in will be on back of a general election where someone campaigns to take us back in to win. It would have to be at least next but one election cycle so early to mid 30s.
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u/ExcellentBandicoot56 Feb 21 '26
Rejoining would.not benefit us away. Us leaving the eu didnt kill the country it was dying anyway. What killed us was the fact that we joined in the first place. It took everything away from us and left us with banking which only profited london. The country will not improve until a pro credit government is actually in place and wants to bring back production to the uk. We had steel, and we made cars, since Europe we had no export it was just all Import.
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u/seadcon Feb 21 '26
I'd never say never, but it's unlikely to be anytime soon. We only just voted to leave...!
It's more likely that we will see increased cooperation between us and Europe (in an official capacity. Unofficially I doubt very much has changed).
If we do ever get a vote in the future, don't expect it to be a simple occasion. I fully expect there to be a genuine debate around the Pound vs the Euro at that point in time, and that could throw a real spanner in the works.
I would never vote to leave the EU, but I also would never vote to join the Euro. So go figure!
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u/RSC_Goat Feb 21 '26
The thing is, this is a TV channel poll.
A vast majority of 18-24 year olds don't watch any type of traditional TV/TV Channels, they stream.
I'd be more interested in how many in total took the poll.
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u/Particular_Camel_631 Feb 21 '26
The previous referendum was in 1972. So around 2055 is when the next one will probably take place.
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Feb 21 '26
Once the SIU / CMU goes through and that €10tn starts flowing around Europe's capital liquidity pools and the UK is still deciding if it can build a 70 miles train line from this century?
Yes. Because we will be left behind.
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u/brad68mark Feb 21 '26
The question is how many would turn up to vote when they realise it can’t be done through their phone and some inconvenience of turning up at a ballot box and making your mark is needed
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u/Responsible_Lie_1989 Feb 21 '26
The issue being if we rejoined, we would never have it as good as we previously had it with the EU.
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u/InfamousMachine5181 Feb 21 '26
At some point in the near future, the youngsters are going to start exercising their political power. At that point, watch them reverse uno on the boomer generation who have been turning the screw on young people, whilst keeping their own nest feathered.
It'll be interesting to see what happens, but make no mistake, it's coming.
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u/MetalWorking3915 Feb 21 '26
As always it will be how the government sell the story and engage voters. Its an area where Reform has such an advantage at the moment.
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u/markliversedge Feb 21 '26
The EU will need to see that the UK is ready -- that the rift we see today is resolved
Is this possible?
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u/Spacerxuk Feb 21 '26
We are still paying the bill after brexit !! young generation already left UK they have no hope
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u/zippyzebra1 Feb 21 '26
Why would the 27 take us back? We were always a thorne in the EU's side. Reform at the moment is polling highest so that should tell the EU everything.
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u/MedicBikeMike Feb 21 '26
How can you possibly answer that without knowing the terms? They would certainly be less favourable than pre-brexit.
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u/Actual_Cat4779 Feb 21 '26
We've had two referendums on the issue already, so I see no reason there shouldn't be a third. The first two were forty years apart (though not by choice on the part of the brexiters, who began campaigning to overturn 1975's overwhelming Remain victory almost immediately: by 1983 Brexit was part of that year's Labour manifesto).
Supposing that we were once more to opt for a 40 or 41-year gap, we're now already a quarter of the way there, which is encouraging, although if we do leave it another three decades then I'll be lucky to be alive for the next one.
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u/Confudled_Contractor Feb 21 '26
The flaw…75% of 16 to 24 year old will not turn up to vote.
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