There's little substance to this statement as 1) the same polling showed a 15% difference from June implying a huge variance - and - that it's likely just a mea

There's little substance to this statement as 1) the same polling showed a 15% difference from June implying a huge variance - and - that it's likely just a measure of public sentiment (in June, when the result was 15% higher, the UK was doing really well in terms of vaccinations) and 2) it's arrogantly false to suggest 'there are no benefits' to being an independent country, the implication that Norway/Switzerland are similarly 'duped' or that Canada should obviously just be a US State given the much closer rapport they have with the US than the UK does with the Continent, and finally 3) EU integration issues are relatively minimal compared to the much more fundamental issues that the UK and EU face in a rapidly changing world. The only way to 'judge' Brexit is to stack up the materiality of the issues - all of them - of course trade, finance and services, but especially those we don't talk about so much such as the democratic deficit at the EU, and the giant legal issues with respect to the 'supremacy' of the ECJ, which was never codified in treaty and is still, in 2021 totally unresolved [1], which if you think about it for a moment is not only bizarre, it speaks to a gaping hole in the competency of the bureaucracy itself. The UK has legal ambiguity due to the fact the laws are ancient, so there's an excuse there. But with the EU, it's a relatively modern institution, there's no excuse for basically the total lack of legal grounding at the ECJ level. [1] https://euobserver.com/opinion/152160 https://euobserver.com/opinion/152160