Leopards Ate My Face

The entire thing is absolutely logical if you think of them as having a pure "what's in it for me" and "I'm alright Jack, screw everybody else" mindset.

I was living in Britain at the time of the Leave Referendum and a great majority of Britons were convinced that Britain is a superior country with superior people (the Press there pushes relentlessly a spin of "Look how much great and wiser Great Britain is" on international news as well as lot of soft-nationalism, hence the putting the flag in everything and, more generally, the high levels of "flag shagging").

Whilst many of these Britons still concluded that even then, Britain was better off in the EU (one of the main pitches from the Remain campaign was literally "Britain should remain in the EU and reform it from the inside" - in other words, that Britons knew better than the other 470 million people and hence the EU should change to be what Britons thought it should be), more than enough still believed the whole bollocks anchored on the view of Britain and Britons as superior that "Free from the 'chains' of the EU" Britain would prosper more than as an EU member.

So it made absolute sense back then for a Briton with a pure "what's in it for me" mindset who totally believed in the superiority of Britain and Britons to think that Britain would be far more successful outside the EU doing their own Trade deals with others and not having to make compromises with other EU nations than inside the EU having to obey common rules which were the result of compromises between all EU countries - after all, it should be easy for such a great nation with its superior people to achieve more than it did when having to compromise with other European countries.

After Brexit and a couple of years to see the effects of it, all of that turned out to not actually be the case.

So it makes absolute sense that NOW, the very same pure "what's in it for me" person would think that Britain should be in the EU.

I wouldn't even be surprised if their vision for Britain in the EU is some kind of "we'll get back what we had before" (i.e. the exceptions) and "after we're in we'll change the EU from the inside"or that the the kind of "logic" put forward by Brexiters during the Leave Referendum for why Britain would leave and still have "the same level of Single Market access as an EU member, without the same obligations" is now used to claim that "we'll get EU membership with the same conditions as we had when we left" (i.e. have the same exceptions as before).

IMHO, Britain hasn't really evolved Politically or as a Society since then, so the exact same mindset that caused Brexit is alive and well there, only now after Brexit has become a fact it's informed by the consequences of it hence the smartest of them now have a different Make Britain Great Again plan which this time involved being inside the EU rather than outside.