Article Brexit: regret for leaving European Union reaches all time high (UK)

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Brexit: Regret for leaving European Union reaches all time high with majority now wanting to rejoin group
https://www.nationalworld.com/news/polit...on-4239894

INTRO: The UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, but Brexit regret is now at an all time high, according to two separate polls. The British public now regrets Brexit more than at any other point since the referendum, according to pollsters YouGov and Deltapoll. The UK voted to leave the EU in 2016 by 52% to 48%.

According to YouGov, 57% of voters believe Brexit was a mistake while just 32% thought Brexit was the correct decision. YouGov also found a majority of voters, 51%, now want to rejoin the EU. Deltapoll also found 51% want to rejoin whilst 34% are content outside of the EU. Pollster Omnisis also found the same result among voters, with a solid and growing margin in favour of rejoining, although short of a majority.

According to Omnisis, 32% of voters support staying out of the EU, down 2% on their last poll, while 48% want to rejoin the group.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in May that Brexit is delivering benefits, citing his flagship policy of freeports and VAT cuts that he said would make beer and sanitary products cheaper. British business investment has struggled to grow since mid-2016, in contrast with other advanced economies... (MORE - details)
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(video) Would the EU ever let the UK back in?
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Everyone regrets Brexit: so what?
https://youtu.be/GiHT7RayTWs

VIDEO EXCERPT: Now it's important to stress that the UK's economic woes aren't exclusively down to Brexit. The UK economy was struggling with miserable levels of productivity and GDP growth even before Brexit. Europe is having a tough time adapting to post-pandemic inflation and Ukraine-related disruption to gas supplies.

Nonetheless, Brexit certainly hasn't helped things for Britain both because of the direct effect it's had on the UK's trade with Europe and because it's taken up so much political bandwidth over the last six years. The government hasn't really had time to sort out any of the UK's other economic problems.

It's also worth mentioning that the EU no longer looks quite as bureaucratic or impotent as it did back in 2016. Back then a useless Brussels bureaucracy spent its time stifling the democratic will of the British people with paperwork. However, in the last year or so that has definitely changed, and the EU has responded remarkably well to the various crises which have affected Europe. [...] Which is one of the main reasons that Ukraine is so keen on joining the bloc in the future.

So perhaps it's not unreasonable to assume that the EU's newfound geopolitical significance has increased regrets among Brits...

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How Brexit unexpectedly strengthened the EU
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INTRO: In Brexit Britain, it turns out we’re not holding all the cards after all. Far from it. For economic and trade reasons, the EU Retained Law Bill is quietly being kicked into the long grass. The reason for this is that in the main, the UK will have to continue to follow European Union laws, in order to avoid exporters, having to deal with two different sets of standards.

This fact of life leaves the UK as a supplicant country to the EU, being forced for commercial reasons to follow EU laws, while thanks to Brexit, it has no further say in those laws.

And remember, the UK either proposed, or actively supported, 97% of all EU laws passed during its membership. We’ve gone from rule maker to rule taker, and it’s all thanks to Brexit.

It’s the opposite of what the Brexitists promised. That said, since the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union in 2020, it’s true that there have been many, many benefits to Brexit. Unfortunately for us here on Brexit Island, those benefits have turned out to be exclusively in favour of the European Union, and all those bloody “Remainers” in EU member countries.

How Brexit Unexpectedly Strengthened The EU

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