The best thing that could happen to the UK is that most internet sites just didn’t bother and stopped serving the UK. Kind of like how some US sites decline to serve up pages to European visitors because they couldn’t be bothered to be GDPR-compliant.
Unlike Europe though, the UK isn’t big enough to matter all that much. So if a large enough number of sites stopped catering to UK visitors, the authorities would quickly backpedal.
The best thing that could happen to the UK is that most internet sites just didn’t bother and stopped serving the UK. Kind of like how some US sites decline to serve up pages to European visitors because they couldn’t be bothered to be GDPR-compliant.
Unlike Europe though, the UK isn’t big enough to matter all that much. So if a large enough number of sites stopped catering to UK visitors, the authorities would quickly backpedal.