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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
Didn't a couple of other countries vote to leave and then, after a second referendum, decide to stay?
Following the result, maybe the electorate in these countries foresaw the problems that we are now having whilst attempting to leave and decided it wasn't worth it when it came to the second referendum??
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No country had ever held a referendum on leaving the EU before the UK in 2016.
A few countries have held referendums on EU treaties, where their constitutions required it (Ireland, for example). On several occasions a ‘no’ vote in a referendum has resulted in cosmetic changes to the proposed treaty followed by a second referendum.