“To Join, but not to Rejoin, that is the question”

With this Government heading ever faster into the EU’s arms, we ask what it really knows

Important news for current (and possibly future?) members of the UK Government

Last week Marine Le Pen was quoted in a major UK national newspaper saying that any attempt by the UK to rejoin the EU would cause France to exercise its veto. In fact, it’s a lot worse than that for this UK Government and all the so-called ‘Rejoiners’, as this report demonstrates.

We reveal a great deal more about a process the Government either seems to be unaware of, or which it prefers not to talk about. In either event, Facts4EU and GB News blow the lid off the whole, demeaning and wearying system. Also, in the same newspaper article referred to above, a named French ‘MEP’ known as ‘Monsieur Frexit’ was quoted at length. This would have been fine if he is actually an MEP, which he is not.

In any event, below we include Monsieur Frexit, who is the economic advisor to Marine Le Pen’s Deputy Leader, Jordan Bardella. If he is happy with this veto threat, then as a ‘Frexiteer’ it shows they’re not saying this out of malice, but a desire to help. Who is to say how many more Eurosceptic countries may help in the same way in the years ahead?

Facts4EU think-tank has prepared this report exclusively for GB News. As always, we recommend clicking that link to get their particular take on this important story. We worked in collaboration with The Campaign for an Independent Britain (CIBUK) and Stand for Our Sovereignty (SovereignUK.Org).

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‘Rejoiners’ will have to rename themselves as ‘Joiners’

The veto mentioned in the newspaper article doesn’t only concern France. All countries who are members of the EU at the time that the UK makes a formal application to join have the same veto. There is in fact no ‘rejoin’ process anywhere in the EU’s accession mechanisms. It must be remembered that the EU claims to be a “rules-based organisation”.

Readers who are pro-Brexit will be delighted about this. So far, this seems to have been something this UK Government has forgotten – or forgotten to mention.

Any country feeling particularly cruel towards the UK could delay its objections up to the last minute, letting the UK go through years of torment, and then refuse to sign and ratify. Or the EU Parliament (see below) might just refuse to sign because of something the UK was doing or had done.

How much does the Starmer Government know about European politics?

While the British were focused on the start of Starmer’s fight for victory in the UK General Election of 2024, the rest of Europe – or rather, 50.7% of the electorate – were more interested in the 10th anniversary of the EU Parliamentary Elections about to take place.

These were held against the backdrop of right-wing or ‘populist‘ parties in Italy (Meloni‘s), Hungary (Orban’s), Sweden and Finland, then in smaller countries such as Slovakia and Croatia.

Understanding an EU election (Are you sure you want to do this?)

Elections are anything but clear in the EU and this goes some way to explaining why it takes so long to get anything done. For example, after the elections, the EU Parliament website declares the results (see below.)

MPs in the Commons rarely change affiliation but the same is not true in the EU when it comes to political groupings. There are more individual party changes too.

Our chart below shows only the latest of these changes. In overall number of MEPs, the results are shown with the largest, von der Leyen’s EPP, starting on the left.

The movement to the right in the EU Parliament

Overall the pro-EU, centrist or globalists did poorly and the beneficiaries were the parties to the right. In some cases to the far-right. For once this is not an inappropriate term.

One notable party which became isolated was Germany’s AfD – now the most popular in Germany. They are now part of the smallest group outside the unaligned, called the ESN, which they helped to found.

The party most readers will know is that of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella: the Rassemblement Nationale (RN), or National Rally. They are part of the new grouping which came third, called the Patriots for Europe, or PfE.

So what about euroscepticism? What about Frexit?

Finally, that newspaper article last week.

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Observations

While the EU badly needs the UK’s money, it would find member countries up in arms if they thought exceptions were being made for the UK. After all, they had to go through the agony. Why shouldn’t a country that already rejected the EU once (and might do again) go through it too?

The French presidential elections fall next year, with President Macron unable to stand for a third term. For Jordan Bardella to win, he and Marine Le Pen have moderated the party’s position. In reality, we find it hard to believe many have changed their views but this will of course be denied and we respect this.

The important thing to remember from this report is not Marine Le Pen’s comment, but all the obstacles the other side would have to face – and the years it would take – for them ever to effect a demonstrably disastrous decision for the United Kingdom. Only one EU country has to object, to prevent it happening at all.

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