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The original vote to join the EU didn't have a 50% of the electorate quorum, so by that measure, leaving the EU is merely righting a historical mistake. :)

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The vote wasn't to join the EU (EEC), it was to allow the public to leave the EU (EEC) they'd recently joined, if they weren't very disinterested in doing so at the time :)

Heh, I should have checked a bit closer.

But the margin was nearly 2:1 in favour of joining.

Are you referring to the 1975 vote to remain in the Common Market?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Commun...

...do you think there should have been a referendum on the Maastricht Treaty?

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