[Yug]

My MP showing he's just as sharp as ever

Ten years on from the Brexit referendum, Sir David Davis has a piece of advice for the Labour leadership contenders who are talking about rejoining the EU.

“The Labour Party will cease to exist if it goes down that route,” says the former Brexit secretary. “It would be bonkers.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... oin-eu-uk/

With the current rejoin figure standing at well over 60%, Mr Brains Trust demonstrates his uncanny ability to get even the simplest things completely wrong.

[mattomac]

The problem is rejoining isn’t as simple as rejoining.

Schegen and currency are two big obstacles that no one wants to address. I would be in favour of both but let’s be honest can you see the country accepting that when it gets in a hissy fit when the Bank of England wants to replace a temporary rotating image of Churchill on a bank note.

Also when you have the likelihood that the next government would kick up a fuss over it would Europe even accept it.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The problem is rejoining isn’t as simple as rejoining.

Schegen and currency are two big obstacles that no one wants to address. I would be in favour of both but let’s be honest can you see the country accepting that when it gets in a hissy fit when the Bank of England wants to replace a temporary rotating image of Churchill on a bank note.

Also when you have the likelihood that the next government would kick up a fuss over it would Europe even accept it.

I think we'd likely get the same deal others have on currency, where in effect you don't join the Euro if you don't want to. But Schengen might not be offered, I agree.

[Boiler]

The problem is rejoining isn’t as simple as rejoining.

Schegen and currency are two big obstacles that no one wants to address. I would be in favour of both but let’s be honest can you see the country accepting that when it gets in a hissy fit when the Bank of England wants to replace a temporary rotating image of Churchill on a bank note.

Also when you have the likelihood that the next government would kick up a fuss over it would Europe even accept it.

I thought countries had the option to include their own national figureheads on Euro notes anyway?

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Tories were attributing the Churchill notes thing to DEI, I saw. Which probably makes them look more stupid than they think. I'm hopeful Burnham might stick it to them for this sort of thing better than Starmer did. Frustrating because Starmer at PMQs was actually good at doing it back. Unfortunately, I don't think it works to "rise above", as I think Starmer mostly did.