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  1. LittleSchwein1234 on

    The question is whether Labour can convince the electorate that this is a good move. There seems to be a bit of a stigma attached to this as movement was relatively one-sided and this issue (+ youth mobility visas) has been quite divisive.

    The EU has to offer something viewed as worthwile by British students for the movement to be balanced and become a potential stepping stone for deeper cooperation, maybe an eventual return to free movement.

    Nevertheless, it will be interesting to see how this goes.

  2. Good. Kids spending time in each others counties, learning about each is the best thing for building tolerance and respect as adults

  3. dorgoth12 on

    Studying abroad was honestly the best choice I made as a student. I didn’t go via Erasmus, just arranged it myself, but it enriched my life beyond anything I could’ve hoped and it was frankly criminal to take that opportunity away from students

  4. Boonon26 on

    I hope Starmer has agreed to this in exchange for *something* at least. When we were in Erasmus we took in hugely disproportionate numbers of students and sent comparatively few of our own to study elsewhere. Given those students were allowed to pay home-fee tuitions, which run at a loss for our universities, we were essentially paying into a programme that saw us subsidising the education of foreign students. It was quite plainly a bad deal.

    Not to mention the Turing scheme (which was created to replace Erasmus) has a vastly higher take up and doesn’t come with us paying vast sums for foreign students due to the ludicrous imbalance.

  5. Wind_Yer_Neck_In on

    One of the hilarious unintended consequences of the Erasmus programme was that as a resident of Northern Ireland I was able to use it to do a year long internship in Dublin, which despite being only 100 miles from my house was technically in a foreign European country and therefore qualified.

  6. Fit-Software892 on

    UK citizens live and work in the EU but since Brexit they just ignore the rules and their government doesn’t pay into the budget so it’s all the benefits with none of the cost. Americans do the same thing. There are some things they are locked out of but Brexit and American individualism have turned the EU into a tax-free rule-free playground for the US and UK.

  7. InterestingWin3627 on

    Ok folks, look we fucked up, the world is a scary place right now, howabout we team up again?

  8. tthirzaa on

    Phenomenal, so the period they were not part of it overlaps exactly with when I have been in uni, with a dream of following a very niche program in the UK. I know it’s a privileged position to be in, but I’m still kinda salty about it.

  9. Lame. This rejoin will last less a cat in a hot car.

    The EU still hasn’t learned from Brexit that the Brits are a misfit in Europe and we shouldn’t waste time to change what can’t be changed. The UK will always have the “fog in the channel, continent isolated” mindset.

    And anyway Reform is only a few years from gaining parliamentary majority and probably brexiting again from everything that can be brexited.

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