Yeah and the Time did a poll asking people if they want digital ID and 84% said yes.

If we do rejoin, it won't be over. What'll happen next is an independent England movement, which will be a lot dirtier than the EU debate. That's assuming Scotland even remain in the UK to prop up the EU support. And I doubt very much there's an English majority in favour of rejoining.

We left. We made our bed, now we lie in it. What has changed since Brexit? Covid, that's what. Everyone is worse off. Yet still we're a rich country. We're still buying German cars and holidaying in the Maldives. We're still eating more than enough to sustain a productive lifestyle. We're still just about able to warm our houses in winter. This is despite covid absolutely hammering the economy.

The doom merchants tried to warn us that Brexit would fuck us up. Yet here we are, not in the EU, recovering from a pandemic, and helping to fund a nation's defence against invaders, and we're doing ok. Not great. We're doing ok.

I'll be very surprised if there's any serious movement towards rejoining this decade.