Summary
Keir Starmer faces growing pressure from Labour’s key financial backers, trade unions, and business leaders to forge closer UK-EU ties after Trump’s new tariffs sparked economic concerns.
The U.S. imposed a 10% tariff on the UK and 25% on key sectors, endangering 25,000 UK car jobs.
A TUC poll shows 66% of Britons now support stronger EU ties. Labour MPs and pro-EU groups argue Starmer’s Brexit red lines are outdated.
Critics warn ignoring EU alignment risks deeper economic damage.
Referendums don’t always work, so instead we should throw Nigel Farage into the sea.
If he drowns, we apply to join the EU.
If he floats, we fish him out of the sea and try and set him on fire. If he burns, we apply to join the EU. If he doesn’t burn, we “nexit” him with a guillotine and apply to join the EU.This seems pretty one sided with various ways to control the system to get what you want. I propose adding external elements to make things fair.
Such as throw fartage into a lion’s enclosure. If they eat him we join the EU.
If not then we find a pit of alligators/crocs and throw him into that.
If he survives that then it’s to the tank of piranha and let him have a week in there etc etc until we join.It’s the only way for it to be fair and democratic.
These are very sensible and fair plans - though you have to be careful not to make it too much fun, else people might be inclined to say “delay the EU application another month, next week they’re throwing Farage in with some bears! I must see that!”.
neckxit
What if he does a Harold Holt and mysteriously vanishes, never to be seen again?
That’s a very good question. I think in that case we have to assume “drowned: apply to join the EU”. If he turns up mysteriously alive at a later date, we can set fire to him etc “in arrears”.
Weren’t such sacrifices traditionally done into volcanoes?
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Yes, let’s go!
We’ll forgive you, UK.
But hopefully not enough to give them a ton of privileges if they join the union again
One of us, but for real this time.
They should be given the best of privileges, but on the EU’s terms: everything that is beneficial for the people in the UK and their economy, unless that’s harmful for the union (such as exemptions from fishing quota or whatever). A stronger member leads to a strong whole, generally speaking.
They already had tons of privileges that other countries didn’t get the last time they joined, see how that went.
The Breturn?
Brenter? Brundo? Brtl-Z? I know there’s a gem of a name for this out there somewhere…
I like Brtl-Z written, but probably no longer once I hear a brit talk about Bontrol-Z lol
Burtle zed.
Not mine but one I really like is The Breversal. Although technically not as correct as breunification, breintegration, the brejoing or the brestoration.
You had me at brest…oration.
Oi mate, come and rest yer head on our European bosom hehe
Great Breturnia.
if trump gets the uk back in the eu at least something good would have come of it.
Even digital goods like games via UK are taxed I just checked.
Any significantly stronger ties required Freedom Of Movement (basically to be inside the Single Market, even as a non-EU-member, means having all rules necessary for it to be a free and open market, which includes Freedom Of Movement), which was one of the main reasons the Brexiters won - like in the US now, Britain’s very own rise of the Far-Right by taking over their mainstream conservative party some years ago was also mainly anchored on racism.
I’m quite curious how many of those 66% of Britons would still be alright with stronger EU ties if that meant that Poles could once again immigrate to Britain at will.
Literally the only good thing that could come out of this shit show.
I don’t see them coming back if they can’t keep the Pound
