Sadly, Jonathan Freedland is right. Rejoining the EU will be a multi-decade project that if I'm very lucky I might see accomplished in my lifetime (I'm 42). It will require the old who never understood the benefits and who were seduced by lies and meaningless jingoism to die, and the young who had their rights stolen to get old enough to have children in turn to be angry about their rights being stolen.
Because it will not happen until the demand is overwhelming, and overwhelming enough to withstand the demands the EU will place on us to consider letting us back in (not getting our rebate back will be the least of it - we'll probably have to join the Euro, for a start, and Schengen). 52-48 was sufficient to trigger the hardest Brexit possible. Rejoin will be impossible until that figure swings back to nearer 30-70 and stays there.
