Good point, this. Labour has to be very careful that in accepting reality it doesn’t argue that the reality is good – it wouldn’t with NHS funding, for instance. twitter.com/PascalLTH/stat…
The other point is that UK rejoin-minded people also have to remember that this isn’t a UK-UK conversation, and that UK half-in is not going to be on offer. It might be single market/customs union rule-taker, but in will mean properly in, euro, Schengen and everything.
And while younger people are pro-EU, more so than older, unless UK performance is dramatically divergent from EU27, which despite its current bad leadership is unlikely, the internationalist case is hard to make.
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 14 February 2022. View the original thread.