[dingaling]

> the whole membership process again

Again? The UK never joined the EU through a membership process, the EU evolved around it.

The terms would be different if the UK joined the EU by proper mechanism, but perhaps we shouldn't want to be in a club which has different rules for old vs new anyway?

[graeme]

I'm not sure I follow. Once the UK is out, it's out. In that case, to rejoin it would have to follow the process to join, no?

I mean, if it was 3 weeks later and no laws had changed maybe not, but past a certain point regulations would have diverged etc

[kyriakos]

Even if laws hadn't changed the other members will use it as an opportunity to take away some of the special deals that UK had pre brexit.