UK must show EU it 'can be trusted again', minister says
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Hilary Benn did not give a timeline for a final sanitary and phytosanitary deal to ease trade frictions.
  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    17 hours ago

    That’s going to be extremely difficult.
    UK showed they can’t be trusted through no less than 5 Prime ministers:

    1. David Cameron. Brexit vote happened under him
    2. Theresa May. Brexit means Brexit whatever that means? But her Brexit deal with EU was thrown out.
    3. Boris Johnson. Notorious liar and outright crazy ideas of what EU should accept.
    4. Liz Truss. Dumb as a brick, with plans that would utterly destroy UK financials. Clearly not reliable.
    5. Rishi Sunak. of the 5 he was most sensible, and micro steps of progress were made. But no signs of seriously improving cooperation.

    So politically UK is not much more trustworthy than USA.
    BUT despite that, I’m sure EU would want to put significant effort into normalizing relations with UK, because it benefits us all, and Europe needs to be able to cooperate more than ever.

    • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      23 hours ago

      The day you get 2/3 of Brits to vote for joining the EU, that can probably happen. No more geopolitical decisions decided on fumes.

      • Tiptopit@feddit.orgEnglish
        5·
        22 hours ago

        On the other hand it would be fair if a second non-binding referendum without concrete ideas on the conditions with a simple majority for a win could lead to a re-entry. After that the britains can start to become reasonable and implement a 2/3 threshold.