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Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster, but I feel like it's time to rebrand the cause. The battle is over and the war is lost. There is no point to being anti-Brexit because the Brexit happened. You can't stop it without a tardis (or a Delorean, for my fellow Americans). Rejoining the EU will require an entirely new set of applications and negotiations. Somebody should come up with a new brand and some catchy slogans. Brexit was a brilliant piece of marketing, for example.
Like Breunion but better than that.
I have a bit of a weird opinion on this. I was very anti brexit. I make multiple trips to Europe every year, probably 4-5 at least. I benefit nothing from leaving the union. My passport is filling with stamps at an alarming rate.
But, to rejoin now after it is done. To rejoin with the basic requirements of a new state rejoining? I don't think it's as great an idea of remaining when we had the perks of an early joining larger state. Certainly you'll find a lot more resistance to replacing the pound with the Euro (I actually could care less, but I'm in the minority here) than there was to leaving on the original terms.
Also, I don't think Europe should have to put up with us (as a whole, the country I mean) whiners. Our bed has been made by the stupidly defined referendum, and the subsequent disastrous implementation and now, we should just suck it up and lie in it.
I think the point I realised how out of step I am with most brexiters was when someone argued with me that now we're out of the EU "they can take all their bloody decimalised currency with them!"
I was completely flabbergasted that someone would still be mad about an objectively better system that's been the norm for over 50 years at this point.