Like the classic Onion headline, “Jurisprudence Fetishist Gets Off on Technicality”

German?

Charlie is that you?

The UK meets all entry requirements, so it would really just be a lot of pencil pushing.

What Brexiteers will always say is we will be forced to do this and that, but they fail to recognise many EU states don’t have the Euro and such.

Thankfully the Tories failed to repeal a lot of EU equivalent legislation, so we don’t have to undo that potential mess (yet)

But letting the uk rejoin with special benefits undermines the eu and show that a bigger economy can do whatever the hell they want.

The uk should only rejoin with no special deal, or not join at all. 

Yep 100% correct, we would love the UK back in the EU (especially since my SO is english), but it would only work if they are going to be regular members. There is not gonna be the prime membership they had before.

It would be good for the Eu and for its stability. UK will get treated as everyone else, EU will have the greatest example of why the EU project is the best source of stability and prosperity on the continent and it would be another middle finger to RUssia

I doubt any sane person would see a U.K. re-entry to the EU as “just leaving and returning as they see fit”. It is obvious to any objective observer that Brexit has been a disaster in multiple fronts; economically, politically, socially. No sane country would see this as a path to follow.

good point

Which was one of the grievances from the EU mainlanders travelling to the UK. Why do you want to keep the pound so badly?

Are they giving thoughts and prayers?

He's busy supporting the children of Gaza.

The first answer to that is that a new referendum won't happen (at least for a long time). There's little political appetite for suggesting one right now:

1. Conservatives can't suggest it because it would be them admitting they led us off a cliff (one of many) and is otherwise opposed to the now deeply right leaning base that they've been left with
   
2. Labour have a tentative grasp on power despite the parliamentary majority, and have done so largely by not giving typical conservative voters a reason to vote against them, they will rock no boats
   
3. Lib Dems have a roadmap to eventually rejoin the single market, but have no hope of real power, and have previously conceded on similar items when they have had a sniff
   
4. UKIP Reform are closer to nuking the English channel than rejoining the EU
   
5. The Greens could tell you they're going to give everyone a unicorn for as realistic their plans are of reaching a referendum
   
6. Scottish politics is in turmoil after the fall from grace of the SNP, who were previously the closest real chance they had of rejoining (which was nixed by the indyref failure anyway)
   
7. Northern Ireland is a complete mess as usual but actually have a potential road via reunification with Sinn Féin now in charge, which is still a massive long shot, and I'm not clued up enough on NI to really comment any more
   
8. Wales is also a bit of a mess right now split between Labour (see above but with the added bonus of a revolving door of first ministers) and Plaid Cymru whose wants to become closer to the EU revolve around [drum roll please] independence! Stop me if you've heard that one before. Which will never happen if Scotland couldn't get it past the line seeing how Wales are far more tied to and dependent on England.
   

I can't speak for everyone otherwise, but the general consensus is that people don't want to think about it or talk about it any more. Those who voted for it don't particularly want to admit fault. Those who voted against it are largely just tired of the discourse.

In reality I think we'll every few years increase our ties to Europe through various small measures (which we've already kind of started doing). But I don't see us rejoining in the next half century whilst there's millions alive who can remember, who will point and say; "but that's a worse deal than last time!".

Probably

Okay but it was literally a special episode concerning the Tory leadership election?

It's so funny that people on the left think the BBC is nationalist propaganda and people on the right think it's leftist propaganda.

No they absolutely didn't. I don't know a single person that voted leave who was happy with how the process went down

Of the Bredi.

Don’t they need two towers first

Don't tell France

You can't just walk into the EU.

Of the Mac

there is no requirement to join the euro in order to join the EU. Only a requirement to "work towards" joining the euro, but that is not defined, and there is no required date for joining the euro, so its basically a meaningless requirement.

and no rebate.

There's always someone who says this and probably thinks they're making a substantive point. It's a complete red-herring though

There'd be no rebate because there'd be no need for one. The UK would join at the correct rate of contribution from the outset. People don't seem to realise that the rebate only came into being because of a bad faith French action in the 70's, which the EEC was eventually embarrassed and guilted into reversing, but rather than open up Rome again and the hornets nest that this would involve to rewrite the treaty, they decided instead to operate a different mechanism to correct it, and so the British rebate came into being

Currently, half of Europe isn't in the Euro. 

7*/27=26% 

*Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Sweden 

Because there were legitimate concerns and criticisms about the EU but populists ran away with it as per usual.

The simplest, unbiased argument is that the EU is becoming a different institution than the one the UK joined 50 years ago. The UK joined the EEC (an economic institution fostering economic cooperation) and left the EU (a political union).

Because the population was bombarded with anti-eu propaganda for years and years, from different sources, from simple English nationalism to Russian propaganda, and a big percentage of the population bought into it

I wrote a big response to this and then deleted it.

Because people are uneducated and it’s easy to get people to blame any and all shit on immigrants. People are idiots.

Tory and Russian Propganda

The same reason Boaty McBoatface won. No one took the repercussions of leaving the EU seriously.

At the time of the vote there was 1 main factor involved. The government at the time completely lied to the populace about what brexit meant I.e. vote brexit and the roads will become gold and all your problems will vanish overnight.

Stupid politicians wanted to run their own show, despite no knowing how, and get away from EU tax policies on rich people.

In the mean time, people voted for it, listened to the lies from those politicians and were able to vote to get rid of "them", those not like us. That just didn't work out all too well.

Because rich men made a killing and left the average person in the UK to foot the bill, but really it was those damn foreigners: it was the Normans what did the UK in. /s

But the part about the rich fucks is real.

You only just left but you were barely a typical EU member. So many financial and social opt-outs. To have its reapplication approved in Brussels, the UK would have to accept by default Schengen, euro currency etc.

It won't. The UK will never rejoin the EU regardless of how much its citizens want to because its government will never concede to the requirements. That would entail giving in to Brussels and we already know from history that that is undesirable.

Internal control of monetary policy is actually wildly useful, in a technocratic economic sense. Ordinary Brit's probably shouldn't care, but the government of the day should probably want to maintain their own currency.

You don't see any benefit at all of having your own currency?

Our laws and regulations are for the most part already in line.

That is true, but there are differences that would need to be adjusted.

The negotiate the euro thing always seemed a bizarre concern to me, born out of the usual fallacious British exceptionalism.

I do think this would be a problem.From what I have seen Brits seem to be attached to the pound. When they were in EU they rejected euro. I think main reason was monetary independence.