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Comment by vrganj | Hacker News Reader

We miss you, British friends. Come back home! <3

In related news:

> A British poll shows that a new Brexit referendum would reverse the vote that led to Britain’s departure from the European Union a decade ago.

Fifty-two per cent of Britons think the UK should rejoin the EU, according to an Ipsos survey of 1,137 British adults conducted between May 14 and May 20.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/new-referendum-wou...

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Also worth mentioning:

Poll Suggests Most Britons Oppose Giving Up Brexit Powers for Closer EU Ties

https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2026-06-08/poll-suggest...

If there were another vote, the media circus, and manipulation via social media would make sure we stay out.

I'm not as sure as you about the result, but I do agree that the campaigning would be absolutely awful to go through, and would reopen a lot of really deep wounds on all sides. It's all very well saying you'd like to rejoin when someone asks you on the street, but an entirely different thing if there was a months-long campaign to have to get through.

Not even that but one of the major issues with the first referendum was that Brexit was ill defined so the pro camp was able to promise basically anything as the final status and everyone had a different idea of what the actual outcome would be. Any vote without the actual final deal on the table or at least a guarantee that the final deal will get a vote will kind of inevitably lead to the same "wait I voted for that?!" that happened when the Real Brexit (tm) finally came out.

I'm almost certain that the final Brexit would not have been approved and pretty equally certain people would be vastly unhappy with the requirement to rejoin.

Considering how the EU and the UK have evolved, I suspect that today staying out of the EU would get more votes than Brexit did back in 2016.

Well, those half are likely under the impression they can rewind things, but realistically that is not on the table.

The EU is not exactly doing much better. None of them truly ever recovered from 2008 or 2020. It is either stagnation or managed decline.

Spain and Poland seem to be doing quite well?

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