Dropping with entitlement. Essentially saying that the normal application process is for everyone else.
You can see why the UK is stuck.
The EU doesn’t invite countries to rejoin unions they chose to leave.
Applications come from applicants.
What you’re describing isn’t diplomacy, it’s wounded Brexit pride waiting for someone else to blink
Very true
The other, an official involved in wider European relations but not directly with security expressed it very well:
"Fûcking around with bits of this and bits of that it pointless. The UK needs to just get off the horse and rejoin. Do what's necessary. It's pointless anything else."
Sharp
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@markemuk.bsky.social with an interesting piece on the geopolitics of Brexit.
The dogs in the street knew it was a geopolitical mistake even before Putin, Donbas, Trump, Iran, Venezuela and so forth.
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www.europeanmovement.co.uk/trump_war_mu...
Agreed
People on the far-right also see it as an opportunity. The less responsible the US is, the more muscular its support of authoritarian forces could become.
Best solution
Best solution
A Constitution binding Parliament? Like, I don't know, enshrining 🇪🇺 membership in the Constitution itself? 😉 (Which already assumes that there is a Constitution set in stone, preferably written rather than uncodified and "generally accepted through tradition")
www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/cons/en/...
It is. But all of us feel the threat of the US losing it's mind.
Exactly, the perspective is lost because they believe somehow the UK is a major power and ignore - it is cognitive dissonance - what the US fer right is.
It is exceptionalism that causes this and it it less about the special relationship than colonisation, the War, the industrial revolution...
Thomas-Symonds: PPE first class at Oxford, chancery and commercial barrister, Oxford don. Biographer of Nye Bevan, Atlee and Wilson.
He is not stupid. It is fair to conclude that he knows he is purveying gaslighting nonsense.
Why did this not stop after McSweeney?
@darrenpjones.bsky.social
I suspect that's true. A lot of the right if they looked into their hearts would not like how subservient they are making the UK
A win is a win. They played well and Italy did too. So it meant something.
Tell me about it. All Ireland's kickers are wobbly
I am not sure of that. What about €? FoM? CJEU ? I don’t think those ones are very popular inside the UK, and typical of exceptionalism.
Not only repudiate it. It can also, because of its legal relationship to treaties, simply legislate to ignore parts of them, and the courts can't stop them
Quite. The geopolitical error was obvious. In an era of continental blocs, Britain left the only one it belonged to and has then spent years pretending the corridor was the conference room.
Cheers
Ah yeah, and some great performances in that
Enjoy
Gold pedigree!
The reset is foundring thanks to that
Exceptionalism is the dominant trait in Westminster and the media.
Brexit only worked and is being maintained thanks to that sentiment and the support for it in large sectors of the public
In my experience, most people aren’t europhile british exceptionalists. They’re a small minority compared with the legions of europhobic british exceptionalists. But thankfully most people are not like either.
If the UK were to want to join and the Council accepts then the requirements are fairly transparent. The Copenhagen criteria for a start and signing up to the EU aquis lock, stock, and barrel. There will always be a risk of a MS blackmailing the other 26 (looking at you Hungary) or an MS
I would say that changing it should require a constitution as a backstop
A treaty can bind Parliament though.
Agree though, supremacy of Parliament needs to end (and I'm sure Parliament can do that) and the constitution needs codifying.
