Yes, but it will be tremendously, enormously, difficult. That’s no reason to not try but it’s impo

Could Britain rejoin the EU?
Yes, but it will be tremendously, enormously, difficult. That’s no reason to not try but it’s important to recognise the scale of the challenge ahead. From time to time, some politicians and pundits will talk about how easy it all will be, until they move on to their next grift.
Bold, coherent action would be needed to create a mass, popular, pro-European movement. The events before, during, and, after the referendum, are not promising that this will happen. There is little indication that any Rejoin campaign is serious or determined enough to do what is necessary to win.

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But amid the insular and increasingly intolerant backdrop of post-Brexit Britain, there’s an opportunity for progressives to set out the alternative of what kind of country Britain could have been instead, and still could be if people choose it. This isn’t just about tactics and strategy, what exactly it means to be European and British will have to be examined too.
Here are five fundamental problems any Rejoin campaign will have to look at.
1. Learn from your opponents and from your own mistakes
The lack of a postmortem into the failure of the Remain campaign, and the preceding years in which support for the EU seriously eroded, is remarkably negligent. Perhaps the only advantage of defeat is the freedom to look, with complete openness, at why and how you lost. It’s not just an opportunity, but it’s a responsibility; to understand the reasons for a defeat, and the greater the defeat and the greater the cause, the greater the responsibility.
Blaming people’s stupidity or racism, or Russian Twitter bots or Facebook data (and there are legitimate grievances there) may make people feel better but people shouldn’t try and feel better by accepting easy answers for the complete failure of the British pro-EU side to make their case not just during the referendum but for years beforehand.
Plus as stupidity, racism, Russian Twitter bots, and Facebook data, aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, Rejoiners need to think about how to win despite those things. It will never be a fair fight.
It’s no use blaming Jeremy Corbyn either. He was one of the most prolific campaigners during the campaign and he was one of the few politicians to actually connect with the public. The ‘seven-out-of-ten’ he gave to being in favour of the EU was derided by some but was one of the few arguments from the Remain campaign to actually connect with swing voters. If you want to blame Corbyn but aren’t willing to look at Alan Johnson (the head of the Remain campaign) and the Remain campaign as a whole, you aren’t looking at why Remain lost, you just don’t like Jeremy Corbyn.
When I saw an event with a joint appearance by David Cameron and Sadiq Khan, I thought to myself, what type of voters is this supposed to appeal to? The establishment was in favour of staying in the EU but why did anyone think that that would be a successful argument with discontent, distrust, and economic inequality at an all-time high?
Ultimately, Remain couldn’t say to people, stay in the EU and your lives will get better, whereas Leave could say that. It was a lie but it worked.
Rejoiners can console themselves that no-one will ever take Britain’s membership of the EU for granted again and that Britain changed to some degree the night of the referendum. The Remain and Leave we talk about came, in large part, into being in the weeks following the referendum not before it.
But Rejoin will have to make the argument that it failed to do during the referendum: How will people’s lives get better because the UK rejoins the EU? Shorter queuing times at passport controls won’t cut it - what about in the towns where the only jobs are in the local supermarket? What will the EU do for them?
Perhaps the bitterest pill for Rejoiners will be to look at how Brexiteers won. A few years ago they were a belittled political fringe in the Conservative party and UKIP. They went on to get a referendum which they won, they took over the Conservative Party, won a general election and No 10, and got Brexit over the line.
They were committed, unapologetic, uncompromising and ruthless. For years Brexiteers had the field to themselves, attacking the EU and immigration. The defenders of the EU were nowhere. Too few politicians were willing to defend the EU or immigration and too many were willing for the EU to take the blame on issues that the EU had little if anything to do with. It wasn’t just Tory MPs as well it was liberals and Labour centrists as well.
British membership of the EU will have to be promoted alongside a proposal for a dramatic overhaul of how our society is organised with a dramatic change in the direction it has been going in for the last 40 years of neoliberalism. The slogans of liberals and centrists won’t be enough and not just because they’re not very good slogans (which they are not) but because no-one believes them anymore.