Summary
Five years after Brexit, its economic and political effects are still unfolding.
Trade with the EU has become more expensive and complex, with mid-sized businesses struggling the most.
UK economic growth is projected to be 4% lower long-term, and new trade deals haven’t offset EU losses.
While public opinion has turned against Brexit, rejoining the EU remains unlikely.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer aims to improve relations but won’t re-enter the single market, as both sides cautiously rebuild ties.
Going back to the EU with our tail between our legs isn’t going to go down well with anyone so won’t be happening anytime soon.
We’d not be able to reject the Schengen area or Euro so I’d imagine that most remain voters wouldn’t even agree to it.
Schengen would be fucking great. It also gets rid of the small boats “crisis” as well. The Euro is a small price to pay
I would also happily accept both to go back into the EU personally.
Yea, schengen is not a deterrence but rather something I’d actually like.
But Reform UK needs that “small boats crisis”! It’s its only raison d’être.
Yes. That’s another reason to rejoin!
The fact that it completely nixes that completely synthetic crisis is one of the reasons this won’t happen in the near future
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“we would rather the people of the UK continue to suffer economically than be embarrassed on the international stage for a few years.”
That’s is strong leadership /s
This is British people you’re talking about.
I don’t think that it’s only a leadership thing.
I think that there’d be enough voters who would be too proud to lose the pound that any referendum to rejoin would lose even if opinion polls showed that most people thought that it was a mistake (I don’t actually know what opinion poles say about this topic).
While I wish it was an option but, barring some kind of catalyzing event, it isn’t. Not in anyone-here’s lifetime.
Would suck for us to lose the pound, but it’d be worth it.