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Having a referendum in the first place was a bad idea but having it and then just ignoring the result is taking the piss
Not ignoring does not mean making potentially irreversible constitutional changes based on am extremely flawed vox pop straw poll, predicated on fantasies and outright lies.
It means understanding what it is about EU membership that ~50% of the voting population has a problem with, and seeking options to remedy that.
That is listening to the will of the people, not making broad inferences that meet your own agenda for personal and party-political gain.
NotThamesWater-
I don't think the leave vote represented a desire to stay in the EU but reform it though. If remain had won 52:48 but politicians had decided that it was best for us to leave as we couldn't get the deal we wanted I doubt people would have been of the view that that was reasonable.
If you look at the post brexit vote opinion polls there doesn't seem to be a great element of buyers' remorse, people still want to leave the EU even though it's evident that no-one has a clue what the plan is.
aggi
The why didn't the MPs vote against Brexit because the general public voted the wrong way is a bit patronising.
By any measure, either by outright votes or, even more so, by constituency, the out votes outnumbered the remain.
There aren't millions of Brexit voters telling MPs they've changed their mind, please keep us in.
Having a referendum in the first place was a bad idea but having it and then just ignoring the result is taking the piss.