Brexit change of heart... [View all]
Last edited Fri Dec 13, 2024, 01:11 PM - Edit history (1)
Just a bit late but people had to do the FO part. Now the people who voted to leave want back..
buyers remorse, big time. A lot of Brits were unhappy with the new visa requirements when they were used to free travel before. Not to mention the economic consequences for small business and farmers.
This will be fun. Since European leaders aren't totally on board and a lot of the populist, far right, parties are Euro sceptical.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/23/britons-who-want-to-rejoin-eu-at-highest-since-2016-survey-finds
“There is a remarkable consensus on both sides of the Channel that the time is ripe for a reassessment of EU-UK relations,” it concluded, with closer relations being the most popular option in every country surveyed – and public opinion on the question well ahead of government stances.
Based on polling of more than 9,000 people across the UK and the EU’s five most populous countries – Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland – in the weeks after Trump’s election win in November, the ECFR study found the strongest enthusiasm for renewed ties were in Britain.
Perhaps the most striking finding was that 54% of Britons who voted leave, including 59% of voters in “red wall seats”, said in exchange for single market access they would now accept full free movement for EU and UK citizens to travel, live and work across borders.
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