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As of 2018 (below), and theres quite a few polls / studies ot coroborate polling trend.
Well fuck FPTP firstly. You can't expect a convincing victory on such a marginal majority. Yes there is an incredibly slim majority of voters who wanted to leave but for all intents and purposes we were left with an electorate split almost squarely down the middle (17.6 to 16.8million).
Use of a supermajorities threshold is well practiced in democracies across the globe, and for very good reason. I can think it would have been especially prudent on a binary vote where one of the options involves a state of change.