Dress it up however you like, but today Spain got Gibraltar. Still "good enough for you", is it? Gibraltar, Northern Ireland and Scotland should each have been given a "Which Union?" referendum, all to be held on the same day, and with Gibraltar to have become part of the United Kingdom, as was once proposed for Malta, if it had chosen the British rather than the European Union.
There are more Remainers in Britain than there are people in many an EU member-state. And those who, unlike Stanley Johnson, were not in any case entitled to an EU nationality need not have long to wait. The European Union could declare every British citizen to be an EU citizen unless they specifically renounced it by paying an exorbitant fee in euros, and by filling in a form that would be accepted by post only. That form could be in Bulgarian, which is the only official language of the EU to be written using the Cyrillic script. More or less nobody would bother with any of that.
Nothing will really end tonight. Britain will remain subject to the State Aid rules, so nothing will be able to improve in the areas that had swung the referendum for Leave. Re-joiners, as such, will contest every seat at the next General Election, and at every General Election until they had got their own way. That is before mentioning the strong Re-join sentiment in and around the parliamentary bodies of both main parties. But I am the Independent parliamentary candidate for North West Durham. What are you doing?
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