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People did not think it was in danger of passing so they didn’t go vote. Others pretty immediately said they had voted exit as a protest and because, again, they didn’t think it would pass and it was non-binding.
Polling made it pretty quickly clear the vote was a fluke. But they ran with it like a mandate from a super majority. Even as it became even less popular through the years it took to negotiate Brexit, when they could have cancelled it at any time.
People did not think it was in danger of passing so they didn’t go vote. Others pretty immediately said they had voted exit as a protest and because, again, they didn’t think it would pass and it was non-binding.
Polling made it pretty quickly clear the vote was a fluke. But they ran with it like a mandate from a super majority. Even as it became even less popular through the years it took to negotiate Brexit, when they could have cancelled it at any time.