• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Do we, EU citizens, allow the UK to return like nothing happened? I would vote yes, with one stipulation. Nigel is sent on a one-way trip to Moscow.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      14 hours ago

      I lived in Britain as an EU immigrant until the actual Brexit and saw the whole shitshow from the inside.

      I say NO to EU membership for Britain - we don’t need another Fascist country in the EU with voting and even veto rights on things that affect all 470 million of non-Britons in it, especially when 1/3 of the population there were very clear about how much they detest the rest of Europeans (the Racism against other Europeans became very overt there when the Leave Referendum started).

      Britain should never have the rights of an EU member until that country has a serious cultural, political and social revolution.

      Britain becoming a member of the European Free Trade Area in some way might be alright (though they’re highly likely to try and abuse such a position, as they already did abuse free trade access as EU members, for example by de facto being an uncontrolled gateway for importing non-compliant products into the EU market).

      British elites having a saying on how the EU is run by using their country’s votes and veto would not be alright, especially in light of all the authoritarian shit coming out over there - from insane civil society surveillance, mandatory online ID and even treating those implementing end-to-end encryption as anti-state actors to anti-Demonstration legislation and imprisonment of people demonstrating against the Gaza Genocide as “Terrorist Supporters” - which manages to beat even Hungary.

      It’s bad enough to have EU countries turning Fascist, but bringing into the EU the country in Europe which after Russia and Belarus is the most de facto authoritarian and most similar to present day MAGA America (though their Fascism is painted in “posh” rather than in “strongman”) would be insane.

    • Paddzr@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Like the person below you, citizens got fuck all to say on the matter.

      I’m from EU living in UK, I would like for it to happen… But even with Brexit, our life here is A LOT better than it was in Ireland.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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      1 day ago

      Fuck no!! They are allowed in without ANY concessions. Also, Canada joins first.