UK voters want closer relationship with EU in ‘significant’ shift since Brexit
UK voters want closer relationship with EU in ‘significant’ shift since Brexit
Major study finds public see ties with Europe as more important than links with US and many ‘exhausted’ by ‘toxic’ debate
Major study finds public see ties with Europe as more important than links with US and many ‘exhausted’ by ‘toxic’ debate
Of course they do. It makes sense.
It's been clear for a while. Forgot merely closer ties - the opinion polling on the UK rejoining the EU has shown consistent Rejoin leads for the last two years (after a neck-and-neck period in the immediate 18 months after Brexit, albeit that being a time when normal politics had been upended by the pandemic and so Brexit wasn't front of mind for many people).
And if you go back further, by the time Brexit actually happened there had been consistent Remain leads over Leave for several years, as well as an outright majority of voters backing second referendum parties at the 2019 general election, all of which the Tory Brexit fanatics in office simply chose to ignore.
One of the great tragedies of Brexit is that the British were essentially pulled out of the EU against our will because of a very slender majority that happened to exist on one particular day in June 2016 - and we're going to have to spend years or even decades trying to reverse the damage done by that senseless act of political, economic and cultural vandalism.
