The biggest single positive step would be to rejoin the EU. We’ve got to the point where that’s not unimaginable.
I can see calling it imaginable. But possible any time soon? It seems like that would require some significant portion of the population to accept that they were conned by the pro-Brexit campaign into thinking that the economy would benefit, rather than suffer. (They were told there would be negative consequences, but chose not to believe it.). Oops.
Getting people to accept that they made a mistake, is really difficult. Nobody likes to admit, even to themselves, that they were played for fools. I'd guess that it will take a bunch of Brexit believers dying off, and being replaced by younger voters who have no personal history in voting for it I'd live, for Britain's sake, to be wrong about that. But....
The biggest single positive step would be to rejoin the EU. We’ve got to the point where that’s not unimaginable.
I can see calling it imaginable. But possible any time soon? It seems like that would require some significant portion of the population to accept that they were conned by the pro-Brexit campaign into thinking that the economy would benefit, rather than suffer. (They were told there would be negative consequences, but chose not to believe it.). Oops.
Getting people to accept that they made a mistake, is really difficult. Nobody likes to admit, even to themselves, that they were played for fools. I'd guess that it will take a bunch of Brexit believers dying off, and being replaced by younger voters who have no personal history in voting for it I'd live, for Britain's sake, to be wrong about that. But....