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Seven years after the Brexit referendum, the proportion of Britons who want to rejoin the EU has climbed to its highest levels since 2016, according to a new survey. Data from YouGov's latest Brexit tracker survey found that, excluding those who said they would not vote or did not know, 58.2% of people in Britain would now vote to rejoin. The percentage is only fractionally down on the 60% recorded in February this year - the highest figure since comparable data began in February 2012 - and has risen more or less consistently since a post-referendum low of 47% in early 2021. A record proportion of respondents in Britain also think other countries are now unlikely to follow its example and leave the EU in the next decade - 42% said it was unlikely, up from 26% three years ago, while 40% said it was likely, down from 58%. EU member states showed a similar trend, with 45% of respondents in France saying they thought another EU-exit was likely, compared to 55% in February 2020. In Germany the figures were 36% and in Denmark 29%. While sentiment towards EU membership has shifted significantly in Britain since the referendum, a slim majority of respondents say they still think it is unlikely Britain will rejoin the EU at some future point in the future.

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[-] Jonny@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I remember the day after the referendum, an economist on the news said that once we leave we would spend 10 years regretting it, 10 years begging to be let back in, and another 10 years trying to meet the standards to be let in. Only 3 years in and I think about that a lot. Mostly because I consider it both depressing and optimistic.

[-] ecosystem5833@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think thats a great idea. Please submit you application for joining. And don't call us, we (the EU) will call you when we are done with

Albania
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Moldova
Montenegro
North Macedonia
Serbia
Türkiye
Ukraine

And the potential candidates
Georgia
Kosovo

And what is your stance on King Charles on your Euro coins. But we can always talk about someone else on the Euro currency.
As an EU-citizen I would love to skip the customsline and start working there without any interference

[-] anxiouscrumpet@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] r00ty@kbin.social 1 points 1 year 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 1 points 1 year 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

[-] grahamsz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year 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.

[-] Mon0@kbin.social 2 points 1 year 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.

[-] BluePetrichor@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely zero chance the UK would have to wait for Turkey to join before being allowed to join.

I am myself am a EU citizen and I still don't understand that anger of EU people against the British people over Brexit. The Brits fucked themselves over, they didn't do anything to the EU. Actually, about half of them are suffering from the decision of the other half, so I can only empathize with the shit show they have to endure.

[-] baascus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately this won’t happen anytime soon. Brussels will want them to give up Sterling and they simply will not.

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