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by ThisIsNotNew 1117 days ago
Many Brits against Brexit and who want to rejoin EU disagree and believe EU wants UK back so much it'll offer the same terms as before.
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I don't have any skin in this particular game but it sure seems to me that the UK is the one who stands to gain the most out of this particular transaction...
That arrangement of incentives seems about as likely as the US agreeing to take the UK on as the fifty-first state.
I mean if you're all about maximising economic gain over sovereignty: joining the much larger (and growing) US makes much more sense than the declining EU