And let's be honest, what you're referring to is blatant cakeism. Which is something the UK needs to be seen to ditch if it wants to be accepted by our jilted allies.

There has been a resurgence of centrist / left embracing MMT. So it's not just the ex-brexiters that need to be persuaded to fundamentally transform UK monetary policy.

I haven't seen any polls that couch rejoining in terms of persuading the EU to ditch their explicit criteria for new members either.

So the £ copium scenario seems moot.

Who can join and when? All EU Member States, except Denmark, are required to adopt the euro and join the euro area. To do this they must meet certain conditions known as 'convergence criteria'.

economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/euro/enlarge...

We wouldn't have the same rebate the UK enjoyed previously.

This would all be massive ammunition for the anti-rejoin movement.

I'm unashamedly pro-EU, but none of these polls or the people reposting them with glee address the issues of rejoining because many assume everything goes back to before we left.

It won't. The UK would need to accept the Euro. And probably Schengen with Irish agreement.

"the fastest growing product ever" YouTube video by voidzilla

The "small government" people hyping and investing in this scam will soon be crying about how the SEC didn't save them.

youtu.be/vS2zr4_PMtQ?...

I'm not going to stan for the pope; the leader of a morally deficient cult.

Just because he's throwing shade on an idiot vice president, he doesn't magically become cool.

Let me know when they reverse position on human rights in respect of reproductive, gender, sexuality, contraception etc

So the US is not actually blockading the strait. Because they wouldn't want to start another international incident.

In other words, the US is allowing Iran to run the show.

But the US stock markets think it's a win and continue to inflate the bubble.

America is f***ed

If you've moved abroad and not paid taxes then if you come back you should be treated as an immigrant.

NHS surcharges, no benefits, no citizenship for 10 years, can't be director of a UK business, no voting, need to take a test etc

F***ing NIMBYs.

Selfishness dressed up as "legitimate concerns".

Scumbag Lee is a far catchier name than 30p Lee.

Perhaps we should all go with the new name.

Your two positions aren't even coherent.

You suck at rhetoric.

The Industrial Revolution created lots of jobs?

I guess the Luddites were just smashing up machines because of the noise then...

Regardless of political affiliation, it seems the US has an education problem.

Yeah, the UK fishermen don't have an Americanised equivalent.

I'd put them on par with Brett Gelman's character in the film The Other Guys.

IMO British Farmers are the equivalent of US farmers.

Brexit voters in the general public are the equivalent of MAGA Hispanics for Trump.

Hollywood should go back to believing that killing a dog in a film is bad luck.

What we've had instead is directors being fawned over in interviews about their dog killing being "edgy", "breaking the rules" or "ramping up the stakes".

This AI slop doesn't look like Trump as Jesus. It looks like Trump as a World of Warcraft paladin, with low level cloth armour.

We're on the Octopus Agile tariff because we have solar and battery.

Last Saturday & Sunday we were paid up to 11p per kWh to use electricity.

Fully charged our and neighbours' EVs. Made a profit.

All thanks to a couple of windy days.

That doesn't result in hundreds of thousands of US citizens being threatened with being turned into charcoal.

If we've learned anything about MAGA Americans, they can be motivated by something that impacts them directly.

Trump couldn't un-ring that bell.

If he fired "only" a small tactical nuke, with a complicit cabinet and top brass, his presidency would be over.

A nuclear adversary wouldn't need to immediately retaliate, they'd only have to give an ultimatum: remove him or we'll launch.

He'd be gone by sundown.

Blizzard should make it a world event.

"Trump's Bane will roam The Badlands until the Iran War ends..."

I find it funny that trump accuses someone of being weak on crime.

How many criminals have been pardoned by Trump? How many laws has he administration broken.

Trump loves being weak on crime.

Surely the Tories, who famously (ab)used secondary legislation while implementing their Brexit, are okay with the current government doing the same thing?

They wouldn't be hypocrites would they?

Because the market price of oil isn't the result of a blockade, but who is doing the blockading...

Too many stupid people in charge and too many stupid people voting for them.

Daily Mail really scraping the barrel for anti-Labour stories.

Also: I got some bad news about carbon capture and the hydrogen economy...

This means that Starmer's Labour government now fully own this fuster-cluck.

The court ruled it unlawful but gave the government leave to appeal without restraint.

The Met isn't totally stupid; they understood it was an unpopular affront to civil liberties and didn't want to continue with arrests.

However, the UK government has pressured them to resume.

If they want to do opinion pieces they could rename themselves to euro-opinion.

But that would damage their brand because "news" has more credibility.

So now, dear reader, you know why rich and powerful people buy news media...