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Can we expect the council to start referring to itself as 'Eurowirral' again, now that Burnham is improving ties with the EU?

An can we proudly walk along Europa Boulevard, Birkenhead's splendidly appointed road to nowhere, once again?

I can't wait!

I don't know what he thinking of, any agreement with Europe will cost us more money than we make out of it as it always has done. We are nothing but a golden pot of money to Europe and they will never agree to anything where they don't make money out of us.

We need to be focusing on improving our balance of trade or decreasing our dependence on unreliable sources, not finding ways of throwing money away.

Attempts to improve our balance of trade with the rest of the world. have all failed (and there have been many) We can improve it most with Europe, and getting rid of trade barriers like customs and imports and tariffs with Europe is the way to go.

The brexit experiment ha proved to be a disaster. We left as the fourth most wealthy county in the world and are now seventh and headed further down.

The overwhelming majority of Brits now realise this, according to the polls, and favour rejoining. It won't be on such favourable terms as those we had but its still better than the declining situation we are in now. It may well involve joining the Schengen area and allowing free movement of people and adoption of the Euro, neither of which worry me in the slightest.

The sooner the better, and we don't need another stupid referendum with dodgy-rabble rousers like Farage spouting his lies and nasty views to stupid Brits again

Beats me why anyone wants to be dictated to by the unelected and to go back in without referendum means future governments can withdraw without referendum. If it's been a failure, blame it on those who refused to carry out the democratic mandate given to them by the people of the UK.

Its not unelected. Don't show your ignorance. Have you never heard of MEPs?

I'll show my ignorance once again, yes I have heard of MEPs though I wager hardly anyone has ever voted for them when they had the chance. I am well aware they had a vote for the European Commission Presidency but they didn't have the power of nomination, which meant nor did the people of this country.

@excoriator

We are currently the 5th largest economy in the world, we are 20% ahead of France who we were on a par with when we left the EU.

The pound is holding well against both the Euro and the USD, how can we be sliding downhill if this is the case?

Economic growths in last two years

Germany 17%
UK 16%
France 12%

France's national debt by GDP or by capita is bigger and growing compared to the UK's and because of EU constraints there is not a lot they can do about it.

Germany is far too dominant in the EU for other countries to have a fair shake.

Since we joined the EU we have always had a negative balance of trade with them, joining again will only make our total balance of trade worse. We had a positive balance of trade with both the EU and the ROW before we joined the EU. Joining the EU opened the flood gates of EU imports without matching exports and also destroyed our exports and imports with the ROW.

Our control of our economy depends on changes to our currency, borrowing, tariffs and quotas, joining the EU we lose control over all four, we become a puppet state. The EU is far from one economy yet its members are controlled as one, that which favours Germany.