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
    64•10 months 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.

        • Hogger85b
          6•10 months 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
          1•10 months 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
        6•10 months 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.