It's Sunday in Brexit Britain too…someone will surely have time to tell the fantastic story of Rejoin!

Let's imagine that the UK shows up hat in hand asking to rejoin the European Union. What then? In Brussels…will they pretend nothing has happened and everything will go back as before June 2016?

Probably not. This would create a dangerous precedent, in which a member state leaves causing enormous expenses and a colossal waste of time, and then comes back as if nothing had happened.

The same thing would apply to a return of the United Kingdom as if it were a Norway or a Switzerland.

Any form of return would also by itself cause enormous expenses and a colossal waste of time.

What would then be asked of London? To pay for the inconvenience? Return with fewer rights and powers than before? Accept a series of punishments? "Suffer for the EU Kingdom of Heaven”?

How will those who failed to "sell" Remain in 2016 persuade UK voters that this suffering be good and fair, and necessary?

There are also two other obstacles: the obligation to use the Euro, and famous article 50.

Whoever enters the EU today must adopt the Euro. Who will convince UK voters to drop the Pound?

Those who enter the EU also get the right to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and ... leave. What guarantees could any UK government ever give that after returning, the UK will not leave again, one year, five years, ten years later? Again, this also applies to the Swiss and Norway models.

A British Parliament, for the uninitiated, cannot bind a future British Parliament. Nothing is "written in stone" and Westminster's Sovereignty is virtually unlimited within national borders.

So let's see… what story do the Rejoin supporters imagine, in their heads? The problems above…how can they be solved in a Rejoin process?

It would be nice to hear a coherent story about it but I don't expect much.

1 Bad enough that Chuckie's King of England, with his limitations. If he were to be made King of Europe, Forget It!

I'm sure I don't need to explain...

2 Interesting article. I don't think the UK wants to rejoin the European Union again. After all, it was a deliberate decision and it takes time to see the result of any decision. | Please contact us if you need a bathroom remodel in Saint Lucie County.

3 I agree Dana; Chuckie is a disaster and will only end the monarchy in Britain if that is possible. King of Europe? Even the French aren't THAT crazy!

4 Becky, I agree; the British People don't want to rejoin, but the elites do and they are laboring to reverse the Brexit decision. I would also think the E.U. would want them back, as they want to be the only political entity ruling all of Europe. An independent Britain spoils the whole concept.

But you are right; the public certainly doesn't want it,a nd it would be a bear to get back in.

Thanks for a good comment.