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say what you want about the brits, but they wouldn’t have voted for brexit twice.
They kept voting for the conservatives for a while after Brexit. They kept voting for Boris fucking Johnson.
To be fair the other side was just as much for brexit as the tories
To be fair, we don't have only two options. The Greens, Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru, and SNP were all opposed to Brexit.
Except of Scotland none of these got enough votes, I guess it wasn't important enough to sway most voters at that time.
You could say the same about the US though, but we still have the same shitty voting system that ultimately boils down to 2 parties barring massive upheaval.
Not at all, look at the linked map. We've only one party in ultimate control which flicks between the big two but we don't have only 2 parties with any viable chance at politics at all. The SNP etc, despite having no executive power, still manage to influence political thought. The same can't really be said for the USA in any meaningful way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election#/media/File:2024_United_Kingdom_general_election_-_Result.svg
Eh, they just haven't had a second chance yet. That kind of bigotry enhanced stupidity doesn't go away easily.
You underestimate Putin's psyops and overestimate people's intelligence.
Well to be fair, you can’t exit something twice
You might think that, but the United States exited from the Paris agreement on climate change mitigation twice: Trump first withdrew in November of 2020, then Biden rejoined in February of 2021, and now Trump is withdrawing for the second time.
Except the UK didn’t rejoin the EU
yet
Don't be so sure about that. That piece of excrement Farange is back.
You say that, but don't forget they rejected alternative vote (abolishing FPTP) then voted for Brexit