Moreover, while May is campaigning around the country to win support for her Brexit deal, Brits don’t actually get a say on whether this deal will pass. Members of parliament will decide the fate of the deal in just under two weeks’ time. And a debate between May and Corbyn may seem particularly uninteresting to many potential viewers, given that the politicians’ views are actually fairly similar. They both voted Remain in the 2016 referendum. Both are now committed to “honoring” the result, despite calls for a second vote. And they’re both pushing for what many Brexiteers would write off as a “soft Brexit.”

There seems little to tempt the British public to watch. With I’m a Celebrity, at least there’ll actually be a winner. On Brexit, it seems more likely that everyone will lose.

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