I find their attitude to the EU inexplicable. We all know Labour is overwhelmingly pro EU, and the voting public itself strongly regrets the vote. Unless they are lucky they are going to find the Lib Dems taking the former moderate Tory vote, Labours current centre vote and the normal disillusioned voter all governments generate and creating a pretty threatening new voter block.
I'm optimistic about it, especially if America continues falling apart and completely undermining the whole point of brexit. The actual public right now is split about 60 / 30 in favour and if thats as durable a change of heart as it looks rejoining is a matter of time and Reform / Tories running out of inexplicably hostile pensioners somewhere around the next 2 elections.
Just don't build your life around because its still going to take a while even at this rapid pace.
The EU in the future will be a power house with further waves of new members, reforms and integration. Theres no real reason for it to stop within Europe just because that is in the name assuming suitable potential members are to be had across the Med in the future. If the current EU was counted as one state in the stats instead of individual countries it would already the worlds 2nd largest economy.
One of the most frustrating things about brexit is that dodgy Dave held it virtually as late as he possibly could before the brexiters destroyed themselves. Even just a year or two later any vote would have had the shadow of Trumps insanity over it.
France with a completely serious hat on is most of the reason the UK is as pro US as it historically has been. They've tried to block or impede our involvement with practically every European project, leaving us with little practical alternative.
And the reason this happened is ironically because they fear letting us in with let the US into Europe
Far beyond time for this to be in the bin, I think there is one other country in the world that allows it. Hopefully the day will come when renters are placed on the same footing too, even if its clearly not going to be any time soon.
Also on Groves reforms just happening to include ways for landowners to undermine the entire system while superficially looking good, thats not some accident.
I find their attitude to the EU inexplicable. We all know Labour is overwhelmingly pro EU, and the voting public itself strongly regrets the vote. Unless they are lucky they are going to find the Lib Dems taking the former moderate Tory vote, Labours current centre vote and the normal disillusioned voter all governments generate and creating a pretty threatening new voter block.