Admittedly, I don’t know much about Brexit, but from what I have been exposed to, it seems like a decisively economical and political impairment that made travel and business with the rest of Europe more difficult and costly. Since it is so highly criticized as a terrible move, why doesn’t the UK just rejoin the EU?

  • @Bjaldr@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Britain had a highly favourable agreement with the EU that it negotiated decades ago. If it wanted to rejoin, it would do so without those privileges.

      • @pqdinfo@lemmy.world
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        131 year ago

        The pound was a part of it, but there was always the UK’s veto which Margaret Thatcher negotiated, which also made the entire “BUT SOVEREIGNTY!!” thing a nonsense - now the UK is under the EU’s thumb, while before it could prevent the EU from doing anything that wasn’t in the UK’s best interests.

        Despite her being associated with Euroskeptics I suspect even Thatcher would have been a Remainer.

        • Hogger85b
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          61 year ago

          Also a rebate, as one of the top 3 economies we should have paid a lot more in than we were.

        • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          Despite her being associated with Euroskeptics I suspect even Thatcher would have been a Remainer.

          While that it is definitely true, her reasons would be that it is easier to control and weaken the EU from the inside than from the outside.

      • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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        61 year ago

        I find it hard to believe that the EU would deny any and all membership benefits for the UK purely out of spite.

        It is not out of spite. More like a “Fool me once” situation. Brexit has cost the EU a lot - not as bad as it is for the UK, but still. If the UK ever rejoins, they would have to make sure that such a shit show never ever happens again. If only to sell it to the EU members who all have to be convinced that the UK will be a good boy from that point on.