I think all of this is premature while Brexit hasn't been reversed. It would be an odd day when several Commonwealth countries have European free movement and the UK doesn't.

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cwillu 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't understand: the commonwealth isn't a hierarchical international organization that really prohibits anything. It is merely a shared state figurehead, and that figurehead is notable for having only a symbolic role in the governance of a given commonwealth country.

More specifically, it's not a suicide pact: the UK is welcome to be asinine, and we're welcome to ignore it.

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1attice 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Have you peeped outside? It's a very odd day indeed, and tomorrow will be odder still. So goes this era.

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cromka 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Brexit won't be reversed, as much as I hate it. Best can be done is EEA membership ad well.

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ben_w 9 hours ago | parent [-]

While I think it's not coming any time soon*, Canada's current economic alignment with the US makes them sufficiently far from being a sensible EU candidate that the UK rejoining is still in many senses closer.

Not close, neither is in the foreseeable future, though the future is exceptionally foggy right now.

* at a minimum, I'd expect a reversal of Brexit needing both that polls show at least 2:1 in favour sustained for a year, and also that anti-EU parties like Reform weren't one of the top two polling parties

	▲	vrganj 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think the one scenario that could work for Brejoin is if Labour rebranded itself as the rejoin party to stave off the threat from the Greens. The Remain contingent is lost anyways. The other side of the electorate is turned off by their waffling. This would give them a cause to rally around and allow them to consolidate their electorate again. With enough Brexit voters now either dead (they skewed old!) or having changed their mind, plus younger folks that weren't eligible to vote back then being very pro-EU, that might just do it.