France.
But to be fair, there is literally nothing saying a wildflower pollinator garden can't be in the same field as a solar farm.
In fact, they work really well together as solar panels can protect plants from harsh sunlight and heavy rain.
Yes. Day one should have been a complete clear out at the BBC and ripping the balls off the media barons in public.
Well yes, but that's because he purged everyone who wasn't on his side and then handpicked their replacements just before the 2019 election.
Hence the likes of Nicholas Soames being thrown out of the party, and the only candidates left to replace Johnson being nutters.
The pro-Brexit lot are a minority, and one which is literally dying off.
The next GE is in 2029, and there's two more years of Trump smashing up the world and the Americans lining up a binary choice between two more warhawks with slightly different attitudes towards gay rights between now and then.
Yep, because our horrible electoral system will ensure the next general election is basically a random number generator.
It's not bypassing the rules of membership, it's implementing them the same way everyone else is.
If the UK agrees to hold a referendum on the Euro every decade or so, that would probably be plenty.
This has *never* been enforced, and nor could it be.
As I said, that's only the case if the *entire* "don't know" block 1) votes, and 2) votes to stay out. They won't.
Nobody votes "don't know" in a referendum.
Remove that and it's ~65%.
But 53% Rejoin means that even if the entire "don't know" bloc votes Stay Out (vanishingly unlikely), Rejoin still wins.
The rules haven't changed since Sweden's accession.
The agreement is to join when economic & political conditions are right.
As it stands neither will be for a long, long, time.
We can't even begin the process until we're *already* a full member. Sweden will veto any attempt to axe that loophole.
Yes, it feels like the Lib Dems are ideally suited to attract the pro-EU, pro-lgbt rights, one nation ex-Tories who are sick of the culture war shit but won't ever vote Labour.
How they've fumbled that is anyone's guess.
The country wants FoM back, it's just the headbangers who don't.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We would be in the same position regarding the Euro as Sweden.
Trouble is *alignment* doesn't do anything bar reduce a massive wad of paperwork by a few pages.
Without the Single Market at minimum, we are completely and totally fucked.
Yes, and the party membership are even worse (though that might actually have improved somewhat now most of the madder ones have gone to Reform), so it's nutters all the way down.
Happens every few decades. As much as I'd like to see the Tories end as a political force, I don't imagine it happening.
Not least because if Reform gets any actual power it will implode within a matter of months and Farage will be going through the thesaurus for a new party name.
The maddest thing is, if the Tories reacted to the defections to Reform with "thank god the loonies who'd taken over our party have fucked off, let's start fixing their mess shall we?" and announced a raft of one-nation policies and an intention to join the single market, they'd win by a landslide.
For the withdrawal agreement?
No, it's just that implementing what was agreed would lead to mass food shortages and destroy our economy.
That's why every year or so the government announces it's kicking the can another year down the road and continuing to wave unchecked produce through our border.
Of course, the UK would be in the same position as Sweden with regards to the Euro - adoption "delayed" for 23 years now and no moves towards it.
"This doesn't work, burn it all down" is a normal reaction to centre ground politics pretending that a clearly untenable and worsening situation is fine and just needs some tinkering.
Of course, given a straight choice between mild left-wing reforms and fascism, the money always backs fascism.
This is random number generator territory.
Scottish independence. That level of constitutional calamity is probably the only thing that will make England reevaluate its place in the world.
Scotland has long since understood its position.
England still thinks it could be world king if it wasn't for the pesky foreigners' interference.
No. Stop spending our money on ponzi schemes.
"We'd have to pay a little bit more to get a massive boost to the economy" 🤡
Getting desperatre, aren't you?
Probably wouldn't be able to even if we desperately wanted to.
No country has ever been forced to adopt the Euro against its will.
Schengen would be excellent.
We are treated as such.
We are treated as a "former" member - i.e. not a current one.
And also, Irish people moving the UK, under an entirely seperate Freedom of Movement agreement.
Ah. Then, likely a significant chunk of them are Americans with Irish passports who lived there for a bit and then went home. Of which there are many, many, many more than Irish people.
"Irish leavers"?
You mean "people with both UK and Irish passports, whose status would not be affected by their vote", yes?
Correct. It's a superpower.
Which is simutaneously true and depressing.
If I recall correctly, journalism (Germany), logistics (France), scientific research (Norway) and higher education (Czechia).
The point being, all these companies have realised that the best person for the job might not speak, say, Flemish, but probably speaks English.