#europhiles — Public Fediverse posts
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Post-#Brexit, British #Europhiles show no comprehension of how the #UK exasperated the #EU27. It wasn't just 5 years of Brexit drama using most of the #EU's political bandwidth, and UK repeatedly negotiating in bad faith; it was nearly 40 years of handbaggery & hooliganism.Britain in the EU was a major headache for two generations.
UK rejoining would have to be weighed by the #EU27 as a tradeoff between the benefits of enlargement and the downsides of the UK's sustained disruption.
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That allowed #Brexiteers to legitimately sell Brexit as the only chance to halt or reverse #EUfederalism. Instead of #Brexit being sold on its (dubious) merits, they were free to approach the 2016 referendum as the only democratic chance to even apply the brakes. That political gift to #Farage was created by the British #Europhiles.
It's probable that if e.g. #Maastricht had been rejected, the UK would still be in the #EU.
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