@ChrisMayLA6 It's self-entitled delusion. #TheObserver is cynically flattering the #europhile fanaticism of its dwindling readership.

Any UK readmission will mean not just an end to UK opt-outs. It would require evidence of a sustained cross-party political consensus for #EU membership, so that the UK could be relied on to not resume its #MillwallFC-style hooliganism in EU institutions. That consensus is not just absent; it's unforeseeable.

These people are mad. England is #TheMadCountry

So what is #Starmer trying to do?

Erasmus isn't an educational scheme. It's an #EU social engineering scheme, designed to get students to make friends across Europe and thereby become more #Europhile. Bit late for that, post-#Brexit. 🙄

There's no electoral benefit in throwing money at the youth, who mostly don't vote. The students who do vote are too angry to vote Labour even when bribed.

This revived #ErasmusScheme looks like £¾ billion/yr wasted on ppl who won't vote Labour.

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The #europhile entitlement poisoned #UKpolitics by defiance of the referendum result. The appallingly-named #PeoplesVote campaign was a toxic attempt to make people vote until they gave the desired answer.

Even worse, #JoSwinson's #LibDems wanted to simply ignore the 2016 referendum. That era of #Europhilia poisoned their own cause for a generation, and turbocharged #Farage.

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