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It's a bit of a catch-22 in which good and bad circumstances both make people hesitant to upset the apple cart. Economy is bad? Seems dangerous to put barriers up with our primary trading partners (the rest of the UK). Economy is good? Well then let's stay and take advantage of it
To be clear I do think it'd work out better in the long run, particularly in terms of democratic representation because FPTP is fucked and not going to go away easily. I get why people are reticent though