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
    61·
    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.

        • Treczoks@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 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
        5·
        1 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.