• anxiouscrumpet@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    The majority of Britons who want back in understand fully that we won’t receive the special treatment we did before we left.

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      2 years ago

      This was one of the arguments I posed to people I know that wanted to leave. That we’d never get a deal as good as we had.

      No-one on that side would listen at the time.

    • ecosystem5833@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Do they really? Would they really accept a situation worse than what they previously had in the EU? Wouldn’t that lead to an incredible resentment towards the EU?
      I still thinks it’s a great idea. I love visiting friends and family there. But please wait your turn before being considered a potential candidate

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      2 years ago

      I also don’t believe that we’d receive none of it either.

      The EU will certainly have to exact a price for the whole debacle, but it’d also be beneficial to the EU to add a large, relatively-affluent trading partner back into the bloc. The EU strike me as more pragmatic than petty, and having someone leave and then come back again would really validate the whole community.

      I expect in reality we’ll rejoin the EEA and find ways to wrangle most of the benefits (for both sides) without having to fully rejoin and deal with that embarrassment.

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        2 years ago

        Well that is the problem, the damage is done the institutions and businesses relocated or are relocating and everybody spend billions severing ties.
        At this point the UK isn‘t a large and affluent trading partner any more. So why would you give a nobody anything special?
        Also the EU is power centric and the UK embarrassed themselves worldwide. Why would you want somebody like that on your team?

        You can just let them bleed out and talk about them rejoining the team when their pride is broken and they are lit. begging you to rejoin.