@TerryHearn
What a pointless “debate” this is.
If you think any politician in this country will stand on a “Re-join the EU” manifesto in the short term then you are seriously deranged. You don’t know how politics works. The Remainers got it wrong with the referendum. They got it wrong again during the initial 2 years of wrangling, They then got it wrong again at the 2019 election. How many of those MPs that stood for remain on the Tory let alone Labour side lost their seats....
Until you start to show a willingness to learn from your mistakes you will continue to make more of them. Once Starmer is out who is the next Labour Leader? An embarrassment of riches there. Haha. Lib Dems? Nope. Nowt there too. As bad as you think the Tories are a glove hasn’t been landed on them. To rejoin the EU you need Labour back in power for probably 3 terms. With a stonking great majority to pass a new Referendum. Likely? Nah.
It is true that not all remainers have the stomach currently for endless more division but make no mistake the rejoin campaign is just beginning. There are many who will be annoyed that they don't have the same freedoms as those who have a EU passport and that British kids will not grow up with the same benefits to live, love, learn, work or retire in the sunshine or ski resorts of Europe or even to live in the wonderful cultural cities like Paris, Rome, Berlin, Stockholm or Seville.....its a life limiting deal like no other.
Those same British kids will no doubt feel the same and by the time of the next rejoin referendum over 10 years will have passed since the great lie of 2016 and another generation of little Englanders who stole their grandkids futures will have shuffled off this mortal coil (with their heads bowed in shame, along with many of those who lied to them....the cunits). Racism and stupidity will have been exposed for what it is - economically and socially ruinous. We will be in a post pandemic world which will be increasingly smaller.
The pressure points (i.e.follow the money) have yet to be felt and I suspect we will initially follow the Norway and Switzerland example to get equivalence for our major sectors.
In the UK this is services which comprises atleast 35% of our £2.8 trillion economy and market forces will demand equivalence as they bleed business to Dublin, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, etc but the EU will be in no rush to grant this unless of course we pay handsomely - my guess is this will be more than £8.5 billion net contributions pa we were originally paying as full members i.e. costs less than 1% of the GDP of our services sector alone. The maths is compelling and the rationale of business will have a life of their own.
Be sure of one thing though, we will be rejoining be that in name only or as full members. It will not be the deal we had before but there will be enormous benefits which will slowly become apparent.