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Originally Posted by jfman

Very soon there will be nobody of any standing in public life who campaigned to leave. With a fresh slate, falling living standards and economic decline it’ll only be natural for the question to get asked.

Unless anyone can actually name a single tangible benefit of not having a closer economic relationship with the EU it becomes inevitable.

The moonbeams of a trade deal with the USA and China ( remember that classic) are long gone. Many Brexit voters will be long in the ground before benefits are realised (it was Rees Mogg that suggested 50 years after all, and the minimum voting age of 18 and life expectancy in the high 70s it means the chances of seeing the benefits of Brexit (2076) is down there with seeing Halley’s Comet (2061).

The only benefit l can think of is those shiny new blue passports.