The ones wishing for the 1950's again more than likely never experienced them. Living in Britain in the years after WWII wasn't all that much fun, according to my wife. Food was still hard to come by with many resorting to small gardens to put food on the table. My father-in-law raised rabbits for protein for the table. Wages weren't that great and many lived in subsidized housing, sometimes several families. Coal was a main source of heat and air pollution resulted.I think they should ditch the decimal system too, shillings, soverigns and tuppeny bits! My favourite British unit quirk is weight - when I was growing up there I would always give my weight in stones and pounds. So 8 stone 5 pounds = 117lb. One stone is 14lb and there are 16oz to a pound! It's a great exercise in mental arithmatic going from stone to kilos
I wonder who the nationalist/ "we wish it was the 1950s again" crowd will complain about now that they can't blame Brussels for everything?
Who knows. The conventional wisdom was Brexit wouldn't ever happen. The conventional wisdom was wrong.I doubt this re-conversion will ever happen.