UK should join, and should join on equal conditions with other countries. It's not only rather silly to talk about Europe leaving UK outside; it's also beneficial for positions in talks with other countries and for less economical barriers inside EU. The benefits of Brexit may not be realized yet - so opponents of joining EU may have some arguments - but so could be said about drawbacks, and general agreement is that unions are more successful.

When it should join? If today both EU and UK are cold enough about joining, it shouldn't be forced. However, in the long run it looks rather like inevitability.

EU should and I think will have interest in UK joining them. UK should also have an opportunity to improve EU as part of the joining talks, which both make UK joining easier and EU stronger in the long run. One of the biggest complaints about EU - not even only in UK, but in EU itself - is the bureaucracy in Brussels. It's a complex problem, but UK-EU crisis seems like a great opportunity to improve the situation. Information transparency on all levels - with laws and law applications clearly visible to all the population, law clarification itself, all efforts to bring that "common sense" the lack of which is so disliked by people - all of that could be in the package for UK to join EU on a better terms for everybody.

The UK has zero leverage and I doubt they would be willing to accept what the EU would offer. The EU holds all the cards in this game.

My guess is we won't actually rejoin but the coming Labour government will undo some of the more stupid brexit changes.

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