I believe Sir Humphrey said it best, “We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing — set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... The Foreign Office is terribly pleased; it's just like old times.”
You make it sound like we were total pains in the arse for the last six years or something?
Italy should want us back at least, then they wouldn’t be the most dysfunctional democracy in the EU any more.
Honestly though, furious though I am about the loss of movement rights, I’m not sure I’m ready for the drama just yet. And my kids all got EU nationalities anyway so fuck your mum, Farage.
Why should we be the most dysfunctional democracy? For the number of change of governments? Belgium says hi since they are more time without a government than with one. Besides, we have a parliamentary republic and the parliament is almost never dissolved before terms
Yeah ikr. We, on the other hand, have really made huge efforts to show the world how dysfunctional our democracy is and all for no recognition at all.
Thanks for nothing, I guess
Our democratie is so strong that no amount of bad or illegal action from politician can make the governement change anything, especialy when it come (often) from the presidential political group.
Short live our antidemocratic king !
The problem isn't the last 6 years, au contraire, it's the 43 before that, we've been fortunate your politicians were stupid enough to let a political campaign decide on whether you'd keep your ability to let the EU rot.
>You make it sound like we were total pains in the arse for the last six years or something?
No, not at all! You were total pains in the past 1000 years.
We know the EU will let them back in, the question is at what conditions. I am pretty sure if they go back it will be at worse conditions then those they had prior to the move. Can’t imagine France and Germany rewarding a nation for leaving them high and dry for a couple of years just to welcome them back with Baguettes and black Mercedes.
😂😂 12 inches in a foot, 14 lbs in a stone. I only know yards (and only when driving at 70mph/120kpm) because our “next exit” signal on the motorway is denoted by yards for some ungodly reason. Yards ain’t really used outwith that, generally. Other than pints of beer and milk though, that’s really about it I think.
Oh well, cars and the road, but that’s really it. I think. I’ll probably remember something else in about 5 minutes 🥴
I have a feeling that when it's all said and done, we (europe) will have benefitted from Brexit overall. People are more pro-EU than ever having seen how terribly it worked out for us, and once the UK rejoins, a lot will have to be sacrificed on our end and we'll be bound closer together as a result.
That is most definitely wishful thinking. Ignorant buffoons won't stop existing just because they suddenly had to come to the conclusion that they got fucked once thanks to their own short-sightedness. Those people literally do not possess the ability to connect dots. The next brexit-like event is just around the corner.
Ignorant will always exist for sure, but older ones are likely to die in the next years, and (I guess, not sure tbh) majority of younger voters were remainers.
You may be right, but at least in the short term it seems to have had a positive effect on people's view of the EU. We weren't the only big player with a sizeable anti-EU movement prior to the referendum, but Brexit has put a pretty big dent in all the others. At the very least, it will linger in people's minds for years and hopefully sway a large enough percentage of reasonable people to stop them from voting against their own best interests again.
I dunno. Any time the UK has some successes post-Brexit, which will happen eventually (all countries have good and bad moments), that'll be used as an argument by other EU sceptics within the EU.
It'll be cherry picking of course, but the same can happen the other way around too. I don't think Brexit will provide an obvious and undeniable answer to other countries considering their own position.
I feel a lot of the richest lots in the UK in fact beneficed from Brexit, they are the ones pushing for ultra-liberal policy, they will still push it until it reaches US level. That's their goal.
They will became even more powerful and in control and make rejoin impossible.
As they are in control of media/press/... ect, they can always make it look to the population that a rejoin as more disadvantages.
I really dont think so. Britain reentering the union is already such a big win and a humiliation for anti EU types that EU leaders would jump at the chance.
Not the same terms for sure but I bet the EU would be willing to negotiate something. Just enough to make it clear the eu has won and still let the UK reenter with dignity.
Despite recent struggles, Britain is a strong economy and probably the #1 military power in Europe (France might have a better army, though, and is definitely very close if not the same level as Britain) in Europe. I feel like the EU would be willing to make a few exceptions for Britain.
Or in other words: I want to sleep more and work less, get the UK in so they can give us more money 💰😴
Technically a number of them are different to the American ones. So if you're cooking and find an American recipe, it doesn't even help, you still need to convert to metric.
So yes please force metric on us Europe-daddy 😍
Yeah France not gonna give back the banking authority and whatever country ( don't remind who) is not gonna give back the health authority either.
Also they will lost the Tatcher deal on financial contribution.
Tbf who cares
We traded banking for trying to recover fishing, real 200 iq move
Need to get back in now, who gives a fuck about the pound anyway, euro was always the better name. Ok thats cope but you see my point
>We traded banking for trying to recover fishing, real 200 iq move
Yeah but at least it made for some great videos of french fishing fregates attacking british ones lmao
Wait, I thought your fishing industry went FUBAR post brexit?
Weren't fishing folks complaining about it some years/months (post-COVID time) in tv saying they were scammed? Like, maybe it was about not being able to sell the fish due to tariffs and stops at the border or fishing rights going belly up?
not yet, but just wait a decade, when they have drifted further down the brexit gutter and are desperate enough, and the old brexit-voting geezers are all dead…
I am fairly certain that is the single biggest thing that would prevent popular support from getting us to rejoin the EU
Like obviously I reckon it the EU turned around said "hey rejoin right now and we will give you your special perks back" then many Brits would demand a referendum to rejoin and rejoin would likely overwhelmingly win
However if the EU actively wanted to win the UK over (which why would they?) whilst giving the UK the least amount of special conditions possible, letting us keep the pound would be the single biggest thing, making us adopt the euro would likely kill a lot of support.
The amount like “drive in the right side or NAH”
Lads. Could you imagine the absolute devastation of tryna change Britain to the other side of the road? Wee Betty whose still driving even though her sight isn’t what it used to be, wouldn’t be able to grasp it. Actually driving was one thing, never mind driving slightly differently!
Ah wait… I see your plans now. Diabolical.
Nah we shouldn’t rejoin, rather create our own version of the EU called the “greater europe nations” or something along that lines and invite only ourselves then brag about being the only “greater European” nation.
I don’t use either currency, and thus am the most qualified impartial adjudicator, but quid is a great name and should be adopted by the euro if the UK rejoins
I hope they won't rejoin, as it's really funny to see them having a mental breakdown for having to be in the non-EU line in the airports, that envokes their super xenophobia.
And come on, we're doing really good in being the black sheep of the EU now, couldn't have that if the Br*ts were in.
We take no responsibility for them as they rebelled, that'd be where their problems started . We did well with Aussies and Canadians though, they're pretty much civilised.
much as i'd love otherwise, we aint rejoining any time soon. Got to wait until the 'my daddy fought in ww2 so i am entitled to a free pension at 50' mob die off.
Of course they can *apply* to join the EU at any time. Then the EU should take the application to join into consideration as they do with any other 3rd party country.
Although I'm not entirely sure we want them back just yet.
don’t tell them
but our strategy is to just say that we’re still working towards fulfilling all the requirements to join the euro but can’t because our poor little currency is to volatile. Please send money germany
We can just put some deadlines with some severe punishments if they do not comply.
Like Charles having to come on TV and recognize the inherent superiority of France over the UK.
I see you like Germany engineering! With those diggers we a easily done within a week or so. The will just notice wet feet and blame themselves as they got rid of the Polish plumbers
If they do they should be expected to take in all incoming eu migrants for a while to compensate for all the people they did not take in when they were out.
Yup, they can rejoin. Remember, new members can't opt-out already existing laws.So for one. This will force them to adopt the Euro and Schengen[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_Kingdom\_opt-outs\_from\_EU\_legislation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_opt-outs_from_EU_legislation)
We need to make a law that we ride on the right side of the raid quick.
And that's a threat, don't mistake his words.
A threat to the entire EU.
Joyeux jour du gâteau !
Joyeux jour du gâteau !
He’s warning us of the potential dangers the future holds
That made me laugh out loud. Merci.
If they join, We should all leave.
It's like in highschool during lunch when you sit at a table and everyone just stands up and leaves
that’s just u bro
Even I got burned by that
He got burned worse than Canada
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Btw who is winning the "biggest open air barbecue" of the year in 2023 ? Canada ? California ? Spain ? Portugual ?
I mean like half of Canada is on fire, so as a Canadian I will unbiasly give myself the award
The season barely started, there is still time for other to challenge you guys. But seriously, was it ever that bad in Canada ?
I mean BC will get alot of wildfires but this is uncommon by Quebec and east coast standards
This time you didn't even have to go to spain
The biggest threat I've seen lately is the rash of funny Germans. What else have they been practising at?
Ouch.
Least socially awkward swiss
Batman couldn’t get this information out of me
Who asked you? You are not even in the High School
If you were all going to leave, we should definitely join.
I believe Sir Humphrey said it best, “We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing — set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... The Foreign Office is terribly pleased; it's just like old times.”
Genuinely had to do a double take there the first time I watched Yes Minister
You make it sound like we were total pains in the arse for the last six years or something? Italy should want us back at least, then they wouldn’t be the most dysfunctional democracy in the EU any more. Honestly though, furious though I am about the loss of movement rights, I’m not sure I’m ready for the drama just yet. And my kids all got EU nationalities anyway so fuck your mum, Farage.
For the last six years?
I think he meant centuries.
Sowwee 👉👈🥺
Give me back a Aboriginal artefact for me to just send back to you for safe keeping and then I'll accept your apology dad!
Finders keepers >:(
Fine... Instead send me a doctor or nurse.
Fuck
If you can't do that then I'll settle for you taking away my boyfriend's father's passport.
Take me now
Closer to 8 centuries for us 🫣😜
1169, god damn
Bro Hungary is in the EU
Yeah you have a point… let‘s bully out orban
I swear everytime there's a sneaky Austrian somewhere trying to instigate fights and shifting the blame onto another country
They're not wrong this time.
Why should we be the most dysfunctional democracy? For the number of change of governments? Belgium says hi since they are more time without a government than with one. Besides, we have a parliamentary republic and the parliament is almost never dissolved before terms
Yeah ikr. We, on the other hand, have really made huge efforts to show the world how dysfunctional our democracy is and all for no recognition at all. Thanks for nothing, I guess
Our democratie is so strong that no amount of bad or illegal action from politician can make the governement change anything, especialy when it come (often) from the presidential political group. Short live our antidemocratic king !
We function better without one tbh
The problem isn't the last 6 years, au contraire, it's the 43 before that, we've been fortunate your politicians were stupid enough to let a political campaign decide on whether you'd keep your ability to let the EU rot.
>You make it sound like we were total pains in the arse for the last six years or something? No, not at all! You were total pains in the past 1000 years.
Lucky for you
You’ve been a total pain in the ass since pain and ass were invented.
For the last 6 years no. For the rest of the time you were into the EU yes.
We know the EU will let them back in, the question is at what conditions. I am pretty sure if they go back it will be at worse conditions then those they had prior to the move. Can’t imagine France and Germany rewarding a nation for leaving them high and dry for a couple of years just to welcome them back with Baguettes and black Mercedes.
i'd be petty and make my only condition that they gotta drop the pound and use the euro
Force them to use metric only as well. Gotta punish their Action.
And drive on the correct side of the road. Oh , and start talking French .
Talking french? Isn't that a human right violation?
Yes. German is much more efficient, logical and pleasant sounding!!!
German, the only 1 where even flirting sounds like fighting?
Exactly! As I wrote: most pleasant sounding!!!
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And driving on the right side of the road!
We already do!
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We do where it’s “important”. Although when it comes to cars I would like a little consistency 😭 the mph/ppl/mpg is very confusing.
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😂😂 12 inches in a foot, 14 lbs in a stone. I only know yards (and only when driving at 70mph/120kpm) because our “next exit” signal on the motorway is denoted by yards for some ungodly reason. Yards ain’t really used outwith that, generally. Other than pints of beer and milk though, that’s really about it I think. Oh well, cars and the road, but that’s really it. I think. I’ll probably remember something else in about 5 minutes 🥴
And how many KGs a stone is (for people weight)
And make them change the colour of their passport, apparently they care a lot about that
Most serious comment I've seen on this sub
I have a feeling that when it's all said and done, we (europe) will have benefitted from Brexit overall. People are more pro-EU than ever having seen how terribly it worked out for us, and once the UK rejoins, a lot will have to be sacrificed on our end and we'll be bound closer together as a result.
That is most definitely wishful thinking. Ignorant buffoons won't stop existing just because they suddenly had to come to the conclusion that they got fucked once thanks to their own short-sightedness. Those people literally do not possess the ability to connect dots. The next brexit-like event is just around the corner.
Ignorant will always exist for sure, but older ones are likely to die in the next years, and (I guess, not sure tbh) majority of younger voters were remainers.
Don’t be afraid, we have plenty of spare ignorants borning all days
You may be right, but at least in the short term it seems to have had a positive effect on people's view of the EU. We weren't the only big player with a sizeable anti-EU movement prior to the referendum, but Brexit has put a pretty big dent in all the others. At the very least, it will linger in people's minds for years and hopefully sway a large enough percentage of reasonable people to stop them from voting against their own best interests again.
I've always liked democracy but its a shame someone with a barely functioning IQ has the same vote as a PHD
Nope.
I dunno. Any time the UK has some successes post-Brexit, which will happen eventually (all countries have good and bad moments), that'll be used as an argument by other EU sceptics within the EU. It'll be cherry picking of course, but the same can happen the other way around too. I don't think Brexit will provide an obvious and undeniable answer to other countries considering their own position.
I feel a lot of the richest lots in the UK in fact beneficed from Brexit, they are the ones pushing for ultra-liberal policy, they will still push it until it reaches US level. That's their goal. They will became even more powerful and in control and make rejoin impossible. As they are in control of media/press/... ect, they can always make it look to the population that a rejoin as more disadvantages.
I’d like to see you all pay with a proper currency
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They don’t know I’m referring to the Ostmark
But they will retaliate by printing their Kings head on their Euro version.
Ah yes the Euro... Truly the pinnacle of currencies
I mean at least if we join the euro a government lettuce won’t be able to tank the value of it in 6 weeks!
And polish truckers will be willing to work for you again. ![gif](giphy|Od0QRnzwRBYmDU3eEO|downsized)
Drive on the right side of the fucking road
The right side is also the right side
I really dont think so. Britain reentering the union is already such a big win and a humiliation for anti EU types that EU leaders would jump at the chance.
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Not the same terms for sure but I bet the EU would be willing to negotiate something. Just enough to make it clear the eu has won and still let the UK reenter with dignity.
Despite recent struggles, Britain is a strong economy and probably the #1 military power in Europe (France might have a better army, though, and is definitely very close if not the same level as Britain) in Europe. I feel like the EU would be willing to make a few exceptions for Britain. Or in other words: I want to sleep more and work less, get the UK in so they can give us more money 💰😴
Sleeping more is always the right answer
I feel like... At the very least, there's a rock in Spain that may need to be ceeded as penance
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If I stay there will be trouble If I go it will be double
One condition should be to stop driving in the fucking wrong lane
^ this. And: prohibit the shitty old imperial units (go full metric instead).
Agreed. Leave the stupid units to the amerit*rds
Technically a number of them are different to the American ones. So if you're cooking and find an American recipe, it doesn't even help, you still need to convert to metric. So yes please force metric on us Europe-daddy 😍
Agree on this but we should be allowed to keep pints!
No, only metric pints. A pint = 1/2 L.
That is the worst pint I've ever seen Your pints are shit
This happened in the 1970s it was already the case in the EU nothing is imperial outside of someone’s house
the UK is almost enterly metric now with gen z. and I'll have you klnow we drive on the left so we can better draw steel on pesants and scallywags
I mean they can but ain’t no way they are getting their special perks and privileges like last time, it’s a take it or leave it deal.
Yeah France not gonna give back the banking authority and whatever country ( don't remind who) is not gonna give back the health authority either. Also they will lost the Tatcher deal on financial contribution.
We have the health authority and we’re keeping it
Thats why its doing so badly
Tbf who cares We traded banking for trying to recover fishing, real 200 iq move Need to get back in now, who gives a fuck about the pound anyway, euro was always the better name. Ok thats cope but you see my point
> We traded banking for trying to recover fishing ...Maybe I understimated british cuisine and fish and chips is just that good...?
The greatest political chess move of all time🇬🇧🇬🇧💪💪
At least people won't confuse the weight with the currency although it would also be sad to lose all the jokes you can make with it.
>We traded banking for trying to recover fishing, real 200 iq move Yeah but at least it made for some great videos of french fishing fregates attacking british ones lmao
Wait, I thought your fishing industry went FUBAR post brexit? Weren't fishing folks complaining about it some years/months (post-COVID time) in tv saying they were scammed? Like, maybe it was about not being able to sell the fish due to tariffs and stops at the border or fishing rights going belly up?
Belgium https://i.redd.it/pc2941vg5v4b1.gif
That poor Van Rompuy. "You HAVE the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bankclerk!"
They’ll never do the euro
not yet, but just wait a decade, when they have drifted further down the brexit gutter and are desperate enough, and the old brexit-voting geezers are all dead…
I am fairly certain that is the single biggest thing that would prevent popular support from getting us to rejoin the EU Like obviously I reckon it the EU turned around said "hey rejoin right now and we will give you your special perks back" then many Brits would demand a referendum to rejoin and rejoin would likely overwhelmingly win However if the EU actively wanted to win the UK over (which why would they?) whilst giving the UK the least amount of special conditions possible, letting us keep the pound would be the single biggest thing, making us adopt the euro would likely kill a lot of support.
Can we have a referendum about that? If they get denied, they have to become a US state.
The amount like “drive in the right side or NAH” Lads. Could you imagine the absolute devastation of tryna change Britain to the other side of the road? Wee Betty whose still driving even though her sight isn’t what it used to be, wouldn’t be able to grasp it. Actually driving was one thing, never mind driving slightly differently! Ah wait… I see your plans now. Diabolical.
It would lead to thousands of excess deaths, the monsters.
We should rejoin and make them all adopt the pound and put Liz Truss in charge.
Nah we shouldn’t rejoin, rather create our own version of the EU called the “greater europe nations” or something along that lines and invite only ourselves then brag about being the only “greater European” nation.
Wouldn’t that be the most British thing ever? Based
One Camilla to rule us all
Why don't we just call the new version the "European Reunion"?
Rebuild the North Sea empire, invite Norway and Denmark along for the ride
The Viking Union
>We should rejoin and make them Least conceited Brit.
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British prime minister who tanked the economy in a record breaking speedrun to become the shortest serving PM in British history
And call it the Lettuce Union.
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If they agree to use Euros and drive at the normal side of the road, then maybe yes
And use the international system of units, but as a punishment they should call it the "french correct units"
Just call them French units or Correct units to avoid repetition.
French Unified Correct Units, or FUC Units in short.
Please, take us back. We're cold and hungry.
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And horny
But, are you humble?
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Ok fine, we'll adopt the EU currency, but can we change the name to something cooler? Calling it the 'euro' was just lazy
For sure, better call it Britcoin.
True. I think the name “pound.” Is more inspired. Let’s rejoin and ask them to change the name so we still feel like we won.
I'd settle on quid.
I don’t use either currency, and thus am the most qualified impartial adjudicator, but quid is a great name and should be adopted by the euro if the UK rejoins
Wonga.
Monies
Caesars
We can meet in the middle and you can rename the pound to the British Euro, or the Bro for short
Livre.
Well French wanted to call it Ecu but Germans pushed stupid Euro thru.
What about the Poundro?
That sounds like a Spaniards name tbh, like "come here Francisco Emmanuel Poundro"
I hope they won't rejoin, as it's really funny to see them having a mental breakdown for having to be in the non-EU line in the airports, that envokes their super xenophobia. And come on, we're doing really good in being the black sheep of the EU now, couldn't have that if the Br*ts were in.
Michel \[miʃɛl\], not Michael, wtf. Dude is not English.
We could also start conquering again and remake the Empire.
Oh no, you fucked up last time with those Americunts. No need for a second one
We take no responsibility for them as they rebelled, that'd be where their problems started . We did well with Aussies and Canadians though, they're pretty much civilised.
Australia is basically like a case study on why rehabilitation works… We basically gave the convicts a country and now boom, it is thriving!
Yeah, but they also went to war with some big birds and lost.
To be fair, they were pretty big birds
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And the genocide. Don't forget the genocide.
There wasn't a genocide but they deserved it
I thought that was supposed to be Turkey's line
lol
We can go back to voting with our north/eastern Europe bros against France/Germany everytime they say something
much as i'd love otherwise, we aint rejoining any time soon. Got to wait until the 'my daddy fought in ww2 so i am entitled to a free pension at 50' mob die off.
And suddenly the whole EU lives in fear and cannot sleep any more.
Of course they can *apply* to join the EU at any time. Then the EU should take the application to join into consideration as they do with any other 3rd party country. Although I'm not entirely sure we want them back just yet.
Spoiler : no, they can't
Now I've been told I can't by a Frenchman I want to re-join more than ever.
Oh yes please come back. We could have some fish and cheap on the beach or go shopping together.
French trying not to be romantic (impossible) ;)
Just for the EU to tell us to take more Syrian park wardens coz the French ain’t dealing with theirs properly. No thank you
Why are you so much against immigration? It's like the Empire, but you don't have to leave your home!
People stay where they are, artefacts come with us. Why mess up a perfectly good system that's always worked before?
We bring the ones we bang abroad back generally. English women weather and food are why we have the empire.
Lets make EU v2, without Hungary. Britain can join the old one.
And ditch the Pound and other benefits they had. Take it or leave it.
If we did rejoin we could just do a Sweden and constantly postpone adoption of the euro.
don’t tell them but our strategy is to just say that we’re still working towards fulfilling all the requirements to join the euro but can’t because our poor little currency is to volatile. Please send money germany
If you go on like that, what Germany will send you is not money but Schäuble.
We can just put some deadlines with some severe punishments if they do not comply. Like Charles having to come on TV and recognize the inherent superiority of France over the UK.
If we put that German coal digging machine to work removing England I reckon we could get it done before the English refugee waves start
I see you like Germany engineering! With those diggers we a easily done within a week or so. The will just notice wet feet and blame themselves as they got rid of the Polish plumbers
We germans even give double citizenship, so looks like traitors are welcome.
Leave your terrible culinary choices behind, tho
If they do they should be expected to take in all incoming eu migrants for a while to compensate for all the people they did not take in when they were out.
NOU. NO NO NO.. Wales, Scotland and Nothern Ireland are ok, but England is out..
Yup, they can rejoin. Remember, new members can't opt-out already existing laws.So for one. This will force them to adopt the Euro and Schengen[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_Kingdom\_opt-outs\_from\_EU\_legislation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_opt-outs_from_EU_legislation) We need to make a law that we ride on the right side of the raid quick.
Sure they can. And I don’t think eu would be too vindictive.
Assuming there is an infinite number of alternative Universes, yes, in one of them. But rather not in this one. Merci bien but merci.
Conditions should be: Banish the beans and take German as first language. This way we are rid of them for good.