No way in hell the European countries would let the UK in after all the smears and scorn directed at them over a decade and especially during the Brexit process. Just one country's people rejecting the UK in the obligatory referendum would scuttle the process. And there are many countries which would just do that.
Smearing, scorning, talking bad about everyone have become habits in British public discourse, as if they are exempt from the consequences of such conduct and everyone has to 'just take it' without having a reaction. A kind of exceptionalism that looks like a remnant of the old imperial era. Many Brits strongly assert that they do not live in Victorian times, but they sure behave like they do.
Smearing, scorning, talking bad about everyone have become habits in British public discourse, as if they are exempt from the consequences of such conduct and everyone has to 'just take it' without having a reaction. A kind of exceptionalism that looks like a remnant of the old imperial era. Many Brits strongly assert that they do not live in Victorian times, but they sure behave like they do.