Charles Day

Why is the EU obsessed with forcing regulatory alignment on Britain?

I still don’t quite understand the position of some ardent Remain supporters. I do not understand why allowing the UK to leave, and then starting up a campaign to rejoin was rejected. After all, that is what the last line of Article 50 invites the state to do by invoking the process in Article 49 (the process to re-join).

Doing so would allow Britain to honour the democratic vote, which, contra to common perception, is what a lot of genuine believers in the EU themselves want us to do. It would end the word ‘remainer’ entirely. A word now unfortunately synonymous with a very negative campaign and a dark time in our national history. It would free fresh faces to make a wholly new argument about the merits of EU membership.

The only counter argument I have heard is that the EU would never give us ‘as good’ a deal.

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