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?

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    Not only that but the EU doesn’t want to make it seem like people can come and go as they please. So they will make serious demands for rejoining.

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      Exactly. UK will be adopting the Euro next time.

      I forget what other significant concessions there were.

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        Schengen membership and no rebate are the 2 big ones aside from the euro iirc

        If the EU are feeling particularly salty they might add the metric system but that’s not a current condition of membership afaik

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          They probably wouldn’t force schengen as we’re in a common travel area with Ireland who aren’t in Schengen so they’d have to force in on them too.

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            That won’t happen because it would be an unreasonable requirement and for no real point.

            It would require a ridiculous amount of road maintenance and sign changes and it would be basically burning money. It would be like asking the French to correctly signpost things, utterly unreasonable.

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      Yeah exactly, not to mention that the EU has called the UK “a trouble maker” in regards to the UK rejoining.