I know, it sounds crazy, and after all the broken promises, probably too little too late, but there was one quite disastrous event that happened in 2007, that could only have happened under the purview of the European Court.
The BBC decided to start providing free education across the curriculum, in a project called BBC Jam.
Pearson, who are simultaneously the worlds largest publisher, the worlds largest educational publisher, and in a bizarre conflict of interests that would break the law in most countries, owner of one of the UK's biggest examining bodies, Edexcel.
So they charge our educational institutions quite a lot of money for textbooks, some based on a curriculum they set themselves.
So far so good, apart from everything wrong with that so far...
Pearson decided it wasn't fair that we, the taxpayer, and TV license payer, were being provided with free education from the BBC, and went to the European court and claimed this was an unfair threat to them.
And won, and the BBC had to shutter the project, and then wash their hands of the whole business, in the process leaving several companies unpaid*, some going bust.
The worlds largest publisher, educational publisher and owners of one of the UK's biggest examining boards, decided it wasn't fair, or competitive, for an institution we're all paying for, to provide free education to us, and our kids.
The BBC was allowed to provide small amounts of educational content and continue it's 'bitesize' initiative that it had started in 1998, but the larger remit of it's BBC Digital Curriculum, renamed BBC Jam, were thought to be too much treading on the toes of for-profit educational publishers.
They had previously had the case thrown out of court in the UK.
Anyway, if we're going to make Brexit serve us in any way at all**, perhaps the BBC should start to think about reviving their Jam project?
Jeremy Corbyn recently said this: "If Rishi Sunak wanted to reform our education system, he would give teachers a decent pay rise, end the privatisation of our universities, and create a National Education Service to provide free lifelong learning for all."
Also, maybe end the privatisation of our examining boards, especially when the only private owner of one has made such bold moves to increase their profit, and prevent the use of free educational resources?
Because "a National Education Service to provide free lifelong learning for all." is precisely the thing that they successfully destroyed.
* a very embarrassing pivot for a company who's fee collectors remind us constantly that they are watching and know we're using their service, and will catch us if we don't pay them.
** Because, in case you'd been hiding under a rock the past few years, it really hasn't.
BBC Jam - Wikipedia
The case was dropped in the UK originally - the guardian
BBC Launches Jam - BBC News
BBC Suspends Jam - BBC News
BBC Jam Session ends with complaints - Informitv
BBC Jam - Lost Media Wiki