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Rejoin the EU, single market, customs union, drop sterling and take the Euro. This would almost certainly start a civil war in the UK (I am not being dramatic) but its what is needed.

Brexit was -8% GDP, according to Bank of England.

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This wouldn't start a civil war. Many of the Brexit voters are already dead and most of the rest are retired.

Lovely comment thread. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the “democrats”…

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/2016-leave-majori...

If you would cast your mind back ten years, I distinctly remember this bitter and callous attitude at the time.

Wanting people who disagree with you to "just die out" is profoundly antidemocratic.

Oh, no, we don't want you, keep your mess to yourself instead of making it EU's

Yea no will never happen.

Only way into the EU is way you described. Full on Schengen, EUR, no more special UK exceptions etc. Will never fly.

EEA like Norway would be both a significant improvement, and does not require Euro. I do think we have to get to the point where we can say that actually Schengen was good and we should have been part of it before we get economically overtaken by Poland.

Michel Barnier (EU's Brexit negotiator and later PM of France) suggests otherwise.

Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘perfectly possible’" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/18/uk-could-ke...

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