Laut ITV-Umfrage würden über 80 % der 16- bis 24-Jährigen für einen Wiederbeitritt zur EU stimmen

>Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU in a new referendum, an exclusive poll for ITV has found.

>The UK voted to leave the EU by 52% in a referendum back in 2016, but our poll found just 17% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to stay outside the EU if there was another referendum – compared to a huge 83% who would vote to rejoin.

>None of that age group was old enough to take part in the EU referendum.

>The results of ITV’s poll, conducted by Savanta for the Peston programme, show that the feelings of young people are echoed in the general population.

>A recent survey by YouGov found that 63% of the UK population would vote to rejoin the EU, compared with 37% who’d choose to remain outside.

>The outcome following Brexit has been criticised even by the likes of Nigel Farage as not meeting expectations.

>Farage’s Reform Party says the UK has not taken full advantage of being outside the EU and claims the Conservatives are to blame for managing the exit process poorly.

>Sir Keir Starmer says he is resetting the UK’s relationship with Europe in a bid to get closer, while the Liberal Democrats want Labour to go much further by agreeing a new customs union with the EU.

>Leader Sir Ed Davey says his long-term ambition is to rejoin the Union, but it is not currently a priority for his party.

>It leaves the Greens as the only mainstream national party campaigning to rejoin the EU.

>Prime Minister Starmer recently said he will seek “deeper economic integration” and “move closer to the single market” in more sectors.

>Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, the PM said: “My message today is the United Kingdom is ready. We see the imperative. We see the urgency. We want to work together to lead a generational shift in defence industrial co-operation. Now this includes looking again at closer economic alignment.

>“We are already aligned with the single market in some areas to drive down the prices of food and energy. We are trusted partners, and as the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Rachel Reeves) said this week, deeper economic integration is in all of our interests.

>“So we must look at where we could move closer to the single market in other sectors as well, where that would work for both sides.

>“The prize here is greater security, stronger growth for the United Kingdom and the EU, which will fuel increased defence spending, and the chance to place the UK at the centre of a wave of European industrial renewal.

>“I understand the politics very well. It will mean trade-offs. But the status quo is not fit for purpose, and to me there’s no question where the national interest lies, and I will always fight for what’s best for my country.”

I wonder if they would feel the same way when they are further priced out of housing because of all the freedom of movement folk

Or cannot get a job because cheaper labour from eastern Europe is doing the work instead.

Edit : I remember when Blair came in being part of Europe was such a great thing.

Now mass immigration has destroyed all of that

Do they know that the UK paid £25bn out of the £30bn Brexit divorce bill? Even considering rejoining the EU would be stupid.

The framing around this issue betrays the biggest split between the UK and the EU, and its something the EU will always shy away from in negotiations

We think we can pick and choose, we think that we can hold a referendum tommorow and if the public support it we can muddle through the details with the EU and re-enter within 1-2 election cycles, perhaps in a worse deal than before.

Of course this is a possibility, but the EU especially values EU alignment, long term policy making, incremental rather than sudden changes to policy and powers distributed away from the elected branches of government towards other more specialised branches of government.

The best thing we could do today from a pro rejoin perspective is set up and maintain a public office whose job it is to ensure alignment, communication with and coherence with the EU market. This would signal an ability to conform within the expected standards of the EU, and will bolster and legitimise any later rejoin referendum; and most importantly will put us in better stead with the EU

I’m very pro joining the EU for entirely selfish reasons but one thing I’d these young people to do is to actually learn other languages. I’m fluent in Spanish but that makes to just less than 1% of the UK population who has that ability. French stands and 2% and German even less.

If young people want to re-join the EU, I’m guessing a big part of that might be so they can live and work more freely there. To do that you do need to be able to speak the local language to a very high standard not just think you’ll be able to coast by with English or tourist level local lingo. You need to be at least an upper B2 or a C1 level on the CEFR scale at your target language and even that is a very long way from native. Even then youth unemployment is very high in some parts of Southern Europe where even natives can’t even get jobs so its going to be tough however your look at it.

There are English enclaves all all Europe but they are having their own housing crisis and blame foreigners. If you think you can rock up to an expat community in Madrid thinking the locals will welcome you with open arms you would be mistaken. As bad as things are for youth in the UK, they are much worse for EU youth.

And that would explain why if we were to rejoin the EU, there would a huge asymmetric number of EU young people who can speak excellent English coming to the UK compared to a very small number of British people who will move to the UK. That means a lot more pressure on housing so rents will go up and completion for jobs will be high and may push salaries down.

There’s a lot to think about the implications of re-joining the EU. I personally would love it but its not going impact me as negatively as it would to many others.

Give them the vote – the future is theirs after all.

I’d love nothing more to rejoin the EU but there is no appetite to re-open those talks.

I think the best we can hope for is the incremental moves we have now. I’d love us to go further.

Adoption of the Euro is not something that will be taken seriously.