The Express is as bad as the Mail, it seems.
Majority of voters demand a second Brexit referendum within the next decade in new poll
No, they don’t. Even their own article contradicts the headline. Also, the source is YouGov, a self selecting and therefore unreliable sample. So, bullshit, frankly. Beyond checking for the contradictions, I wouldn’t waste your time reading this cack.
As far as I can tell there has been no offer from the EU setting out the terms for re-admission – other than the general ‘new joiner’ rules.
I suspect that these would be unacceptable to many people, since they include “the ability to take on and implement effectively the obligations of membership, including adherence to the aims of political, economic and monetary union.”
Since there would be (and previously was) a big difference e between the UK Common Law and Free Trade approach and the EU Roman Law and Protectionist approach it would be very much a forced fit.
In the end the main question would be ‘What’s in it for us?’. The original ‘trade deal’ was attractive, the (hidden) political deal unattractive. The political deal is no longer hidden.
The only fact that can be obtained from a poll is that someone put a cross on a piece of paper, or said “yes” or “no” to a verbal question, irrespective of what they really think, so the results are irrelevant.
I clicked on it to check the contradictions, but the page is just full of clickbait garbage, down the sides and through the article. This is not a serious newspaper
My adblocker stops all that.
I have adblocker 🙂
This is the Taboola style junk that is supposed to look like newspaper articles
I’m not getting that. I’m using Ublock Origin. Maybe it’s blocking more than adblock?
If you run Privacy Badger together with UBlock Origin, Privacy Badger mops up anything that UBlock misses. PB works on the fly, whereas UBlock works off a list, so PB hits the new trackers until UBlock gets an updated list. Right now, PB is reporting 5 trackers blocked on this page, UBlock is reporting 3 of those 5.
Thanks, I’ll give it a shot
And what Ripper said
I have no objection to another EU referendum……in about 2055.
The original referendum was in 1975. We put that mistake right about 40 years later with the vote to leave in 2016. So, as I say, I have no problem with yet another referendum. As long as it’s held over 30 years from now. (By then, I suspect I’ll be too old to care either way.)
As you say, YouGov is a self selecting and unreliable sample. If you haven’t decided to create an account with them (so that you can get ‘rewards’ for answering their questions), you won’t get asked for your opinion. I always distrust YouGov polls.
Presumably 46% is a majority in the same way that 48% was at the time of the referendum. In any case, anyone thinking that we can just say to the EU, whoops, our bad, can we come back in please? is an ignorant fool whose opinion isn’t really worth much.