Could the UK really rejoin the EU? | BBC Newscast

Put the options to the British people, I reckon only a stubborn minority are in favour of the hard-line Brexit that we got, when we were promised by Boris and the Brexit lot that we would likely have a soft Brexit and stay in the Customs Union. Instead we stupidly cut all political ties with our neighbours.

UK to re-join the EU with the following <b>absence</b> of previous unique exceptions just like every other member:<br>1. Will adopt the Euro as currency and join the eurozone, which also means forgetting about the once unique extraordinary exception of rebate<br>2. Will join the Schengen area, which includes installing ICAO Compliant eID Cards for services and travel <br>3. Will always place the EU flag alongside the UK&#39;s country flag in public, including on licence plates once more<br>4. Will use the metric system for land vehicle speed and for distance of road/rail/waterway transport network<br>5. Will apply EU law and regulations to its overseas territories in Europe: Crown dependencies (Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey), Gibraltar, plus the OST in Cyprus (Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia)<br>6. Will join not as UK, but as the constituent countries England, Scotland, and Wales (the EU could then adopt Sc. Gaelic and Welsh as official languages); Northern Ireland can decide whom they want to be part of: (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, or (d) Ireland<br>7. The EU/EEA will universally use and apply British English spelling, pronunciation, and wording over American English (e.g., aluminium instead of aluminum, tomāto instead of tomäto, holiday instead of vacation) and the use of the Oxford comma in grammar<br><b>Note:</b> <br>a) The accession criteria to join the eurozone is to limit debt with the planned or actual government deficit should not exceed 3% of GDP; the government debt ratio should not be higher than 60% of GDP. <br>b) A single EU member could veto unresolved issues like Cyprus asking for the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia be handed over; Greece asking for the Parthenon marbles; France asking for some kind of arrangement for the Channel Islands; Ireland asking special rights for Northern Ireland assuming it hasn&#39;t unified yet. <br>c) The negotiation phase of fundamentals could question or reject the democratic structure of the UK meeting political union under the Copenhagen criteria for enlargement on things like having an absence of a codified constitution, the Westminster-style parliament model despite Scotland and Wales having a continental model, the First Past the Post (FPTP) election system, and/or the life peerage nomination of House of Lords members.

There will be riots if we are forced back into the EU only a few short years after we just voted to leave. The EU are licking their lips about being able to fleece us again like they did when we were members, and it seems Labour cannot wait to give the country away.

Reported in the Guardian May 2026 : Andy Burnham says he will not try to return UK to EU.
<br>Andy Burnham has said he will not try to return the UK to the EU, saying Britain would be stuck in “a permanent rut if we’re just constantly arguing”
<br>Can the Prime Minister with no political, electoral or democratic legitimacy be trusted to tell the truth?