How Is This Progressing ?

[Gromit]

Surely it wasn’t a fib ?

https://images.vice.com/vice/images/articles/meta/2016/05/31/turkey-eu-membership-cameron-brexit-1464708546.jpg?crop=1xw%3A0.9375xh%3Bcenter%2Ccenter&resize=650%3A*

[ichkeria]

Project fear more like.

Leave did Fear so much better than the other side but were admirably modest about it ;-)

[ubasses]

Not too well. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-turkey-eu-factbox/factbox-turkeys-collapsing-eu-membership-bid-idUSKCN1BF1TH

[ToraToraTora]

I think the EUSSR are more concerned with current members than new ones gromit.

[Spicerack]

Not as well as they hoped.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/677850/Turkey-EU-David-Cameron-Vote-Leave-Politics-Macedonia-Eastern-Europe-Balkans

[Spicerack]

Want anymore, gromit? I've got loads of them, lol.

[Old_Geezer]

There's plenty of time. Always suggested they could have our vacated seats.

[jno]

It was always a Brexiter lie. Nobody can join the EU unless all current members agree. Whatever the likes of Boris the Ottoman may say, France will never let them in.

[ichkeria]

Turkey’s EU membership has gone the same way as Cameron.
Coming up later: Queen Victoria expresses her hope that India will long remain a part of the British Empire

[Spicerack]

' Nobody can join the EU unless all current members agree. '

Tee-hee.

[cassa333]

Oh but don't you loose your voting rights if you don't tow the line? Doesn't everything get rubber stamped eventually? It does rather seem that way.

[ichkeria]

Given Erdogan has gone on record as calling the EU some sort of unholy empire, I think it's fairly plain that he hs no ambition to join the beauty contest of prospective members. And this was already starting to be the case during the referendum campaign.

[dannyk13]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/05/eu-must-end-hypocrisy-letting-turkey-think-can-become-full-member/

[cassa333]

When a country doesn't want to join you have to ask, hmm why don't they want to join this wonderful, all encompassing club?

Could it be that from the outside they can better see how bad it actually is?

[ichkeria]

Turkey’s EU aspirations have always been half hearted at best. What they really wanted above all was visa free travel to the EU. Turkey, which had a huge empire for centuries (rather like Britain) has fancied being an economic rival instead.
And Erdogan has developed into an autocratic, populist leader who like all such leaders doesn’t fancy the idea of liberal politics and international cooperation, not to mention democracy, that he’d have to foster.

[Jackdaw33]

Sorry to introduce a note of pedantry but this is a great bugbear of mine. The expression is 'toe' the line, not 'tow'. The reference is to athletics.

[cassa333]

You can be as pedantic as you like Jackdaw it won't make a blind bit of difference. :-)

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Turkey, which had a huge empire for centuries (rather like Britain) //

Good heavens, somebody's read a book.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Will he get round, do you think, to "History of Slavery", "Hindu Kush - why so called?" and the poignant "Whatever happened to the Maghreb's blacks"?

[vetuste_ennemi]

My own Pedants' Corner:

Ottomon: 1453 (fall of Constantinople) - WW1.

British: 1713 (Treaty of Utrecht - Gibraltar!) - WW2.

[ichkeria]

Ha ha yes Jack: I wa going to mention ‘toe’ ‘tow’ (and shoo-in/shoe-in) somewhere else but courage failed me :-)
But given the general rudeness of some posters I guess what’s another insult ...