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regnaD kciN

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3. And now it's too late...

Sat Dec 25, 2021, 10:05 PM

Dec 2021

Even if Brits (or at least the English and Welsh; the Scottish and Northern Irish were overwhelmingly against it from the start) came to their senses and passed a new referendum calling for the U.K. to rejoin the E.U., each and every one of the twenty-seven member nations of the latter can exercise a veto that would single-handedly kill any petition to rejoin -- and you can bet at least one of them would at any given time.

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One year on, most voters say Brexit has gone badly [View all] turbinetree Dec 2021 OP

Well, since it was a bad idea to begin with......... DFW Dec 2021 #1

LOL... Boomerproud Dec 2021 #2

And now it's too late... regnaD kciN Dec 2021 #3

I'd like to think that the EU will take the high road. Grokenstein Dec 2021 #7

committing economic suicide is a bad idea. Who knew!!!!!!!!!!! Takket Dec 2021 #4

And it's way more than a year in. vanlassie Dec 2021 #9

I feel pretty bad for my Brit pals who voted to stay Mr. Scorpio Dec 2021 #5

Sounds familiar to another voter nightmare innit? Pas-de-Calais Dec 2021 #6

Lord Frost moondust Dec 2021 #8

I could have told them that in the beginning. LoisB Dec 2021 #10

If only they had had some kind of warning Poiuyt Dec 2021 #11

Who would have thunk it? NCjack Dec 2021 #12

BUT NIGEL FARAGE! budkin Dec 2021 #13

It's called learning the hard way. Which comes with the freedom to be stupid. ancianita Dec 2021 #14

lot of that going around nowadays ??? monkeyman1 Dec 2021 #15

But the EU is probably happy that the Brits are out Klaralven Dec 2021 #16

It won't end well for Johnson either malaise Dec 2021 #17