#bregret

A majority of Britons support rejoining the European Union’s single market even though that would mean the restoration of the free movement of workers from the bloc, according to a poll published on Wednesday (29 November). Curbing immigration was a key reason Britons voted to leave the European Union in 2016. Polls in recent months have shown that a majority of people now think Brexit was now a mistake, and Wednesday’s poll comes less than a week after data showed that annual net migration to the United Kingdom hit a record high last year – more than double the figure recorded in the year before the Brexit vote. The YouGov polling showed that 57% of Britons would now support joining the single market even if that meant the resumption of the free movement of people, a policy which led to millions of families and workers moving to Britain during the country’s membership. One in five people opposed it.

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在英國正式脫離歐盟的第三周年紀念日，一些英國人開始經歷「脫歐後悔症」（Bregret）。英國新聞意見網站UnHerd與軟件公司Focaldata本周合作收集的民調顯示，在全英632個議會選區，除3個選區以外，餘下地區的絕大多數民眾如今認為「脫歐是錯誤的決定」。 在2016年那場「脫歐公投」中，正是「奪回控制權」這句口號深深地打動民眾，以至於左右了公投結果。讓主權從布魯塞爾回歸英國議會，意味著英國人能重新自主地管理本國的邊界、法律與金融體制： 有效的移民管控，據說會緩解房價過高，因職業技能缺失導致的勞工收入過低，以及各類公共服務成本過高帶來的生活壓力。脫離歐盟的監管體系，並與其它國家簽署一對一的自貿協議，據說會讓倫敦成為全世界的銀行，「泰晤士河上的新加坡」。 以上種種收益，加上英國脫歐後無需向布魯塞爾繳納的費用（僅2015年就達108億英鎊），意味著能解放更多資金，用於投資基礎設施建…

I couldn't agree more. 

Hard Brexit was defined by the UK leaving both Customs Union and Single Market. Which it arguably did (with the of NI, the only region of the UK not in economic decline right now), but there was always one fundamental problem with this maximum Brexit!

While the US is the definitive military super power on the planet, the EU has quickly established itself as the definitive trading super power, effectively shaping the rules of global trade. 

Rules unacceptable for Britain! ⚠️

Since it became clear that the EU isn't going to dissolve anytime soon and the rest of the world seems happy obeying with these un-bureaucratic, and un-British, European rules. The only logical post Brexit future is for the UK to leave!

Au UK l'âge de la retraite est à 66 ans

Bregret a new portmanteau of the terms Brexit and Regret. Among the British, the expression refers to regret at having voted for the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union in 2016. Two years after the end of the post-referendum transition period, on December 31, 2020, this term flourishes everywhere in the British media. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was considering pursuing a closer deal with the European Union, modeled on that of Switzerland. The Swiss have access to the single market and fewer border controls, in exchange for contributing to the bloc's coffers and accepting some of its rules

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Five years on from the Brexit referendum and nearly two years after leaving the bloc, most Britons would vote to rejoin the EU if a plebiscite were held, according to a new survey released on Friday (12 November).

The UK would vote to rejoin the EU by 53–47%, a survey of over 2,000 people by Savanta has found. Meanwhile, 82% of those who did not vote in the 2016 referendum say they would now vote to re-join the EU.

The passage of time appears to have done nothing to reduce the political divisions and faultlines in UK society that were exposed by the referendum campaign and political deadlock and continue to dominate UK politics.

The promise that London’s relations with the EU were settled for good by the referendum and the election win for Boris Johnson’s Conservative party in 2019 is also belied by the survey which finds that despite Brexit fatigue, two in five UK adults would support a referendum on whether to re-join the EU within the next five years, with just one-third opposed to the idea.

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