Nearly a decade after voting to leave the European Union, the United Kingdom is exploring ways to rebuild its relationship with Brussels. The current British government is pursuing a diplomatic “reset” aimed at deepening cooperation in key areas such as security, trade, and energy. Despite shifting public opinion and persistent economic challenges, the UK administration maintains a firm stance against rejoining the EU, the single market, or the customs union, opting instead for targeted, incremental negotiations to ease existing barriers.
- The UK is reassessing its post-Brexit relationship with the European Union roughly ten years after the 2016 referendum.
- The British government has initiated a diplomatic push to foster closer ties and improve cooperation with European leaders.
- The current UK administration has ruled out rejoining the EU, the single market, or the customs union, and will not reinstate the free movement of people.
- Recent public opinion polls indicate that a majority of the British public now views the decision to leave the European Union as a mistake.
- Areas identified for potential closer cooperation include defense agreements, veterinary standards to reduce border friction, and joint security measures.
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Now Farage want more brexiting than the last Brexit. More Take Back control, more sovereignty, more Hozzaa!
Brexit was such a dumb decision.
Leaving the EU was sold as taking back control — but looking at the numbers, it turned into one of the biggest own-goals in modern British history.
Right after the Brexit vote, hundreds of thousands of smart, hardworking European workers — Poles, Romanians, Lithuanians, etc. — started heading home. These were people who already spoke decent English, understood Western work culture, and filled massive gaps in hospitality, construction, farming, logistics, and the NHS. Official stats show EU net migration went deeply negative. We're talking hundreds of thousands fewer EU workers than pre-referendum trends. Businesses suddenly couldn't find staff, wages spiked in some sectors, and shelves had gaps.
Then came the next level of madness: instead of a calm, controlled points-based system that actually prioritized the best and brightest, the UK flung the doors wide open to non-EU migration on a scale never seen before. Record net migration hit nearly a million in a single year. Huge numbers came from India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and other countries. While some (especially Indian IT and healthcare professionals) are highly skilled and English-proficient thanks to their education systems, many others arrived with much weaker real-world English, different cultural expectations, and lower average skill levels in certain cohorts.
The points-based system requires English at B2 level on paper, but enforcement has been patchy, especially with dependants, students, and care worker routes. The result? Schools in some towns drowning in extra language support needs, housing pressure exploding, NHS waiting lists ballooning partly because population growth outran infrastructure, and visible integration struggles in certain communities. Census data still shows gaps where a portion of recent arrivals don't speak English well, correlating with higher welfare use and slower economic contribution in some groups.
UK basically swapped a ready-made European workforce that integrated relatively smoothly for a completely different demographic experiment — all while claiming we were getting "control." The shocking part is how fast it happened and how little public debate there was about the trade-offs. Now even the government has had to slam the brakes with higher salary thresholds and dependant bans because the numbers became politically toxic.
Prime Minister Starmer? How old is this I wonder? I know technically he still is but it dates the story.
When immigration is hard to control
As long as the UK doesn't prosecute the Brexit maffia, they can't enter EU. You cannot enter the EU if you have major corruption in your country.
These liars like Ferage, Boris, etc. They knowingly lied to the people for money.
They should answer for their crimes if the UK has a functioning legal system.
These polls are commissioned by pro EU lobby groups. The only polls that count are at the ballot box and Brexit wins every time
Brexit was not correctly implemented so obviously many supporters are disappointed about it. That is not a strike against the concept of Brexit but against the implementation of it.
Well done, Madeleina. I hope that you are re-unified with your husband. Brexit, on every level, was an absolute and total failure. The entire Brexit project was driven by English nationalists, the Scots and Northern Irish voted to 'Remain'. Younger people are showing much more pro-European attitudes and UK demographics are moving in the way of 'rejoin'. Roger Casale is completely correct.
They did not want my buiness there. 🙂
I cannot help but feeling…. not bad about it.
margaret thacher on the wall :)))))))))))))))) WTF is wrong with you niel?!