BBC Newscast Panel Discusses Potential for UK Brexit Reset and EU Single Market Access

It's astonishing that, ten years on, the UK still hasn't grasped that you cannot have the free movement of goods without the free movement of people. They still haven't recovered from the delusion that they are somehow 'special'.

Signed by: A citizen of the European Union.

The UK is in a unique position as an attractive destination for more on a permanent basis than the public services would be able to provide for the freedom of movement, an issue to address.

The UK needs to join the Euro asap to stop the bond vigilantes

You can't buy loyalty.

"everyone knows how to get the economy growing" – if that's true then why hasn't it been done? A more accurate thing to say is everyone wants the economy to grow but hasn't got a clue how to achieve it.

Did labour 🇬🇧 just quietly reset with Russia buying processed Russian crude oil from India and Turkey?
How exactly did you pick the audience most of them are middle aged or older, did you pick only those TV licence subscribers?

How to not get Andy Burnham elected: Focusing on how we will rejoin EU or the single market in some way or another.

Brenter! 🎉 ❤ from 🇵🇱

Let them back in! For an admission fee of 900 trillion euros plus a yearly membership fee of 25 billion euros.

Who's the idiot in the family who believed that the EU would not punish us for brexit and would continue to punish us, on any future relationship to send a message to any other nation, that felt it had enough of the EU.

There is one good reason to rejoin: Poland! 🇵🇱 We have not join the EU for Germans tf!

The EU can do without the UK. That's not an opinion, its a fact. The UK isn't needed back. It's the UK that needs the EU, and not the other way around. And at the moment the UK wouldn't be welcomed back, for a plethora of reasons: the UK's unstable political climate, not complying with the TCA, not meeting the accession criteria to begin with, always trying to cherry-pick perks without the obligations, being an unreliable ex-member, etc. But that may change in the future. If the UK meets the conditions (a challenge) and reasons for vetoes have disappeared. It'll take a few decades though. That time-frame might not be liked by Britons due to the urgency that's felt. But again: that's a UK problem and not a EU problem. The UK just isn't that important to the EU anymore. Brexit is being discussed in the UK only.

Yet the UK is getting closer to a Farage Government. But you expect the EU not to notice this.

With an old nut to the East, and an old nut to the west, Europe needs to focus on what we have, and can have in common, and not worry about the shape of bananas. And hopefully the UK population is more mature now to be wise about the media and it's divisive, controlling ways. The media has abused it's freedom.

Four remainers discuss remainer issues at elite event.

I'm shattered Brexit, but the people voted for it and they have to live with the consequences, good and bad. Period.

ONS data May 24th. Since 1997 the UK population has increased by 10 million. ~95% is not high skilled immigration. If we had ONLY admitted the 5% we'd have the same benefits, without expensive house prices. The salary to house price ratio would be 3, not 5.

they have no idea what to do with lousy economy and other difficult problems – so they will get themselves busy with 'back to the EU' monkey business (won't happen, but wouldn't solve anything regardless). And – keeping with the centuries-long tradition – try to push Europe deeper into the war with Russia.

When gilt traders jolted Westminster awake with a spike that spelled sovereign strain; and when ministers mouthed soft assurances that markets mocked with rising yields; then those same markets, merciless, mechanical, mathematically minded, made their meaning plain by punishing every reckless policy and every wavering signal; so that a single shock more will shove this government from drift into crisis as borrowing costs bite, budgets break, and the bond‑holders’ verdict becomes the country’s fate.

We don't want you back, go with your special friends usa and it's TACO leader 😂

Let's do it. Sick and tired of these die-hard leaver eejits dragging the country further into economic oblivion unnecessarily. Other non-eu members enjoy the benefits of the single market, so why can't we.

Libtards denial of the biggest democratic vote in British history we voted out!

Eurozone debt crisis forecasted for 2027.

one would expect the EU makes the UK pay into the EU budget in exchange for access to the single market. similar to what Norway or Switzerland have to do – but since the UK has almost eight times the Swiss population or more than 12 times the Norwegian population the contribution might be quite handsome.

What strikes one, observing the matter from the continental side-lines, is that the United Kingdom is no longer quite the gravitational centre of European politics that it briefly became during the tumultuous years between 2016 and 2020.

In Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands alike, ordinary political discourse is nowadays rather more preoccupied with migration, housing shortages, inflation, the Russo Ukrainian war, energy security, defence, hybrid warfare, artificial intelligence absurdities, and the perennial theatre of domestic politics. The question of whether Britain ought to rejoin the European Union scarcely features near the top of the public agenda anywhere. Indeed, most continental Europeans appear, emotionally at least, to have moved rather decisively beyond Brexit.

Certainly, some polling in Germany, France, Spain, and Italy suggests that respectable majorities would not object to Britain returning under ordinary European terms. Yet polling is a remarkably inexpensive form of political virtue signalling. It is not the same thing as political mobilisation. One searches in vain across continental Europe for governments, parties, or electorates prepared to expend meaningful political capital upon the matter.

There also remains, if one is candid, a residue of distrust. Many Europeans remember Britain as the perpetually semi detached member, forever negotiating opt outs, demanding rebates, obstructing integration, brandishing vetoes, succumbing to flamboyant opportunists and oligarch adjacent populists, and eventually departing altogether in a fit of sovereign indignation.

And yet, would the European Union benefit from Britain’s return? Economically, one suspects the answer is, on balance, yes. Politically and institutionally, however, the matter is considerably more intricate.

The Union undeniably lost a great deal through Brexit. It lost one of Europe’s two principal military powers, its pre eminent financial centre, a formidable diplomatic and intelligence actor, a substantial consumer market, and one of the continent’s most accomplished academic and research ecosystems. Brexit diminished not merely the size of the European Union, but also its global weight and strategic reach.

The essential question, however, is whether a genuinely “normal” British membership would ever prove workable.

For such a Britain would necessarily look rather unlike the Britain of old.

It would presumably entail accepting the supremacy of European law in agreed areas, acquiescing eventually perhaps to Schengen arrangements, acknowledging at least in principle eventual euro adoption, restoring freedom of movement, contributing fully to the European budget, and foregoing the cherished Thatcher rebate. In short, Britain would have to participate as a member state rather than as a permanently dissatisfied exception to the rule.

Such a transformation would remove much of the chronic friction that poisoned Anglo European relations for decades.

Before Brexit, Britain frequently functioned as a liberal market counterweight to French dirigisme, a sceptic of federal ambitions, and a brake upon certain integrationist impulses. Yet today’s European Union is no longer quite the same creature. Eastern Europe has become more influential, Germany more cautious, fiscal orthodoxy somewhat less rigid, and security concerns vastly more pronounced.

Under those altered circumstances, a rejoining Britain might conceivably fit more naturally into the Union’s present coalition dynamics than it ever did previously.

As for whether ordinary citizens, rather than merely the denizens of London and Frankfurt, would benefit, probably yes, though unevenly, incrementally, and with rather less revolutionary glamour than enthusiasts on either side sometimes imagine.

Reduced trade friction alone would likely produce modest but tangible gains. Brexit introduced a thicket of customs formalities, regulatory duplication, and border delays, the costs of which are invariably passed along to consumers. Reintegration would not magically render groceries inexpensive overnight, but it would probably alleviate certain supply chain inefficiencies and inflationary pressures over time.

Likewise, freedom of movement would once again permit Europeans and Britons alike to live, work, study, retire, and transfer professional qualifications across borders with relative ease. Such advantages would naturally accrue more strongly to younger, mobile, and highly skilled populations than to older or more locally rooted communities.

Most serious economic analyses also suggest that Brexit reduced Britain’s long term growth trajectory relative to continued membership. This occurred not through catastrophic collapse, as some melodramatically predicted, but through slower investment, weaker trade expansion, and diminished productivity growth. Rejoining, or even substantial reintegration, would likely improve matters gradually. Such improvements do eventually affect wages, tax revenues, and public services.

That said, many of the anxieties underpinning Brexit were not wholly irrational. Concerns regarding rapid migration, democratic distance, technocratic governance, uneven regional development, and the concentration of prosperity within metropolitan centres such as London were, and remain, politically real. Any future reintegration that ignored those underlying tensions would risk merely recreating the same cycle of resentment under a fresh banner.

Nor is the European Union itself without its own chronic afflictions. Bureaucracy, questions of democratic legitimacy, cumbersome decision making structures, migration tensions, and persistent regional inequalities remain very much alive within the European project.

Consequently, rejoining the Union is hardly some enchanted mechanism by which everything instantaneously becomes Scandinavian. Though, judging by recent Scandinavian difficulties involving gang violence, resource extraction controversies, hereditary monarchies, and the occasional unfortunate proximity to dubious financiers, even that comparison may no longer possess quite the utopian lustre it once enjoyed 😅

I remember a time when it was the heart that always led the way for western democracy. Collective acceptance of a binding social contract to care for one another, in the name of liberty, freedom and equality. But it couldn't stop here. No, humanity had to strive for more. The endeavour must continue seeking purpose, meaning and truths. Then came capitalism, and the heart opened its gates to logic with new found quests in individualism, and personal attainment. An abstract market was born and greed, and power became synonymous with prosperity, and determination. The mad dash to conquer the world also meant the trampling on everyone and everything else, and it was here when your God's knew, that you had lost your way.

"……..well you know, societies grew, dynamics changed, political complexities evolved and democratic systems adapted.
But don't forget, democracy vibrates with the same resonance as harmony. That's why it was supposed to work – it had the essence of Eudaimonia and Ubuntu. These things are too fragile, I guess. There's a corruptible nature now, and it's eating itself from the inside. The people didn't want to see it, because they were not willing to accept their second loss of innocence, since Adam."

I can see the beauty in the ideals you once carried — and I can also see where you abandoned them

All pathetic globalist elites

No, the EU has said again, and agains and again that the four freedoms are indivisible, and that it wouldn't do a bespoke deal like Switzerland's ever again.
The fact that UK politicians are still obsessed with Johnsonite cakism is utterly deluded. Are these people just stupid?
You can be in the EEA, or you can not. There is no scenario where you can be in parts of the EEA and not other parts.
Starmer is an idiot. The UK media seems to imagine the EU has no say in this, they hardly ever discuss the indivisibility of the four freedoms, and portray it as it is merely a UK decision. But that is the UK all over, it was the same during Brexit, pretending it is a UK only situation. For an organisation with global reach the BBC can be extraordinarily parochial.

homosexuals generally seem manic to join the unelected fascist EU – but bbc homosexuals even more so

With the volatility of our politics and the rise of a very xenophobic far right in the UK, the EU would never take us back. We are basically on our own.

Beggers liars governments for almost 20 years cant be CHOOSERS BUT SHAMELESS PMS MUSICAL CHAIRS ?
PROOF CONTAMINATED AT TIMES WATER NO ENERGY AND MONEY ON WAR WITH…..WAR INDUSTRIAL COMLEX ETC ETC SUSPECTED???
Nb its the commonsense of TRADE SHOP MONEY FOOD ON TABLES ALMOST 60% ON BUDGET ? CITY DON'T MAKE MOCKRY AS SEEMS STOOGS STOOGE SUSPECTED???

Why would we wish to rejoin this corrupt, failing, undemocratic racket ????????