10 Years Of Brexit

The 10 year Anniversary of that toxic Brexit vote has just passed where the country, or rather 52% of us, swallowed the lie that we would be better off outside the European Union rather than it in and learnt the hard way, that we aren't.
The Labour Government, worried that the wounds are still too fresh to open a debate of rejoining the EU, has been slowly realigning ourselves with Brussels with agreements to ease trade frictions, closer regulatory cooperation, security partnerships, selective participation in EU programmes and a gradual unwinding of bureaucratic barriers but know that whatever we agree on, it will always be inferior to full participation in the European Union.
For the United Kingdom, the costs are hard to ignore with persistently weaker growth, lower levels of investment and a diminished capacity to shape the very rules that continue to affect it.
The EU recently made an offer that we could rejoin on the same basis as that when we left but rather than snap their hands off, Labour  saw a still politically sensitive issue and politely turned it down.
At some point we will have to rejoin, the other option is persisting with the current arrangement and the economic stagnation and polls are showing that the rejoiners is outweighing the leavers and the longer we refuse to accept our future is with our nearest neighbours, then the poorer we will be for longer.