UK Parliament will debate a petition to join the EU on 24 March 2025
Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible
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I am not familiar with the political system of the UK at all, but am very interested what kind of consequences and official stuff are to be expected during and after the debate? Is anyone here having fun elaborating? Thanks.
This point will get raised in Parliament because they are technically obliged to. They'll quickly decide that they cannot persue rejoining the EU and they must continue with making the best they can of Brexit. Nothing will come of this.
It's still a poignant exercise though.
I think it's worth remembering how the UK ended up in this position.
It also hilights the irony of leaving the EU, and then working on mitigating all the problems of being isolated from the EU, while avoiding rejoining.
It's inevitable that the UK will rejoin, for all the reasons that brexit was a stupid idea. The only question is how many decades need to elapse before it's politically palatable to propose rejoining
I appreciate your answer, but I posted some follow-up questions here to maintain overview. Maybe you like to post over there to enlighten me further.
They’ll say it’s still too soon. It’ll be like ten minutes.
They already responded to the petition it's there in the website, the discussion will just be more of the same
Has the King any role in this? Either by law or because of his own mind? I mean he is one of UK's biggest influencers, no?
Besides some media coverage what follows? Also what about the person(s) who submitted this petition? Will they be included in the process, for example by being invited to present the cause? And are there moments in history where petitions made an actual difference already during this official act or right after it (e.g. some MP or the Government changed their mind surprisingly)?
The king's role is entirely ceremonial and the monarch does not express a political option. England is a parliamentary democracy and the king gives his blessing to whatever parliament puts in front of him. Some anti-monarchists argue that the rotalss are a very expensive tourist attraction at this point, and useless drain on public funds.
I don't know the exact ins and outs of the parliamentary process. There must be some previous example of a petition changing something at some point.....but I would think of that an as an exceedingly rare exception.
genuine question: What would the consequences of the king not giving his blessing to whatever parliament puts in front of him be? What would the law see as the next step? Would there be a parliamentary tool in place to "override" the king?
I don't know. Considering that the king does whatever parliament tells him, this has never come up. I don't know what the details are of the rules and processes.
