Dear Leave Voters,
I hope you get to read this short thread.
If there is a "hard Brexit" it is inevitable that the UK will seek re-entry within a decade.
Here are four consequences that follow:
I hope you get to read this short thread.
If there is a "hard Brexit" it is inevitable that the UK will seek re-entry within a decade.
Here are four consequences that follow:
1. Britain will have to join Schengen, just as every other recent new member has. (It might even have to join Schengen as a condition of joining EFTA.)
Only the UK and Ireland are currently permitted to stay out of Schengen.
Only the UK and Ireland are currently permitted to stay out of Schengen.
2. The same probably goes for the euro. (Luckily the further devaluation of sterling if Brexit goes ahead will bring the pound into parity with the euro, so you'll barely notice.)
3. The UK will lose not only any say on new EU laws, but also its veto and rights to opt out of political union.
It is unthinkable that we would recover either of these privileges upon re-entry.
It is unthinkable that we would recover either of these privileges upon re-entry.
4. Remember that £350m a week that was a lie? Well, it will probably come true because the EU would have no need to reinstate the rebate negotiated by Margaret Thatcher.
Bye-bye another £5bn a year.
Bye-bye another £5bn a year.
If you think the EU is being hard on the UK as it tries to leave, it's nothing to the roasting we'll get when we ask to be let back in.
If you insist on making us a pauper state, remember this: beggars can't be choosers.
If you insist on making us a pauper state, remember this: beggars can't be choosers.
