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It's possible and I'd vote for that just as I voted to remain. The EU will need to change first though; the federal model of regions without sovereignty and the drive for standardisation which some Germans, Belgians and north Italians get wet over isn't for everyone. I suspect the best way forward is a looser trading union. Remember, they miss us more than we miss them.
With the UK (already of course a union and with Aus/NZ/Canada to consider too) more elderly brexit voters have died off since the vote than the margin of victory was. Plus plenty of new voters have hit 18.
Brexit has been neither the great success that its supporters said it would be not the disaster its strongest opponents predicted. The economy has done slightly better than it would have if we'd remained, the drive to buy British products has been good for agriculture, manufacturing and retail, unemployment is at a record low, certain predatory European companies have been excluded from bidding for U.K. tenders and we've renationalised a couple of railway companies that had been bought by French and German companies. On the downside they're furious in Northern Ireland since there's a customs border with the rest of the U.K. that they don't want, and of course our universities have lost Erasmus students which was good for 'soft power'.
A lot will happen in the world before the U.K. joins again ; we'd need a n even better deal than the (good) one we had before and of course we'll rejoin on our terms. I suspect though that the will have changed a lot by then and there is no doubt at all its current form will have radically changed.
