I am not even from the UK but I gotta say that you guys kind of live in an anti-democratic country. Some would call it a tyranny but it clearly is at least anti-democratic.
I have been thinking about Brexit a lot lately. I remember staying up late watching the returns and I was so excited for the people of the UK for deciding to leave. Leave won. That was over two years ago!
If the UK public decided to stay in the EU, then the government would have done that (obviously). But since the public "decided" to leave, the government was going to drag its feet with delays and do such a crappy job negotiating that most people would want to just stay keep the status quo. All of this seems to be deliberate. The joke was on the UK public.
A cynic in the USA once said that if voting had the power to change things, then they would take that away.
This is a leaflet of what the government said: