I love the idea there's a debate about whether we/UK should rejoin the EU Customs Union; its the same old entitled nonsense.
Sure we can express an interest or even desire to rejoin, but expressing that in the face of the EU's pretty obvious position that it treats the UK with suspicion & would only welcome the UK back with very serious conditions, is just political stupidity.
If we want to rejoin step one is building back trust & goodwill, something we've not really been doing!
@cstross@wandering.shop the people who warned us this would happen received deaths threats and retreated from public life mostly.
How's that for some 'British Democracy' folks? Anybody want to follow in our footsteps? Oh, you actually are....oh....
Keir Starmer is urging firms to 'do deals with Beijing' as a way of boosting the UK's economy.
I'm not sure what people were thinking when they voted for Brexit, but its unlikely they were thinking China was a better business partner than Europe?
Given the concerns about China's threat to national security (which Starmer also mentioned), its difficult to see this as a rational choice - more like a desperate move to shift focus from his failure to re-engage with the EU?
@cstross@wandering.shop well Britain, that's what giving in to Xenophobia results in, maybe we could give that shit up?
@cstross@wandering.shop Everybody recall what wonders the xenophobic project that is Brexit did for the British economy.
At first the brexitiers said the UK would be 'liberated' and everyone would be financially better off but quickly it evolved into "We don't care what it does to the Economy, we don't like Forrins"
Almost 10 years later and is the UK prospering? Is it happy?
Imagine a family stuck in a house that constantly floods. The carpets are soaked, the walls damp. It’s always cold.
The family try everything. They promise to replace the sodden carpets and find new, innovative ways to warm the house. But no one ever looks upwards and says: maybe we should just repair the giant hole in the roof.
Britons are that family – and the giant hole in the roof is #Brexit.
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