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Re:UK exports to EU slashed by 68% since Brexit by ben_w on Sunday February 07, 2021 @02:52PM (#26057650)
The last time the UK government wasn’t Con/Lab, Ireland had not yet become independent. I wouldn’t call that “robust”.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UK_popular_vote.svg

Re:UK exports to EU slashed by 68% since Brexit by jfengel on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:03AM (#26078260)
My point was really that there existed genuine anti-Brexit positions, and people failed to vote for them. That shows as much about the weakness of voting systems as it does about Brexit, but in the end the pro-Brexit party won a majority of seats. If people really were that anti-Brexit they did have options.

The entire thing was a clusterf### that should never have happened. All voting systems are bad even in the best of cases, and this was far from the best of cases. Good luck living with it.