Brexit

[Muddy Retriever]

This is true. Indeed, some of the Leave campaigners during the 2016 referendum were saying that they were happy to be part of the Common Market (as the EEC was often referred to in the 1970's), but they didn't like the political union that had developed since the Treaty of Maastricht. For these Leavers, the logical form of Brexit is to leave the EU but remain in the Single Market: the "Norway" option.

The problem with that is the Norway option doesn't recreate the UK's position as it was in the Common Market of the 1970's. Now we would remain in the Single Market and be subject to all sorts of EU rules and regulations (without any say on them). In the 1970's there was no Single Market. The Common Market was a much looser trade association.