It didn't, and 3 years ago that point was (in my opinion) at least partially understood. However since then it has been treated as an article of the faith by b

It didn't, and 3 years ago that point was (in my opinion) at least partially understood. However since then it has been treated as an article of the faith by both the major political parties in the United Kingdom that "brexit means brexit" (and a wide variety of other fairly meaningless slogans) Now, reversing course would be seen by a large percentage of the population as a betrayal and would quite likely lead to a hard right victory in the next general election (although the vagaries of FPTP could make outcome rather random) Looking at things like the "britain elects" twitter account which follows various polls, you can see the effect of various outcomes on likely voting https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1176103416990437377?s=20 https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1176103416990437377... compared to https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1176087917149728768?s=20 https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1176087917149728768... for example.