That is extremely disingenuous if you're referring to the electorate.
A decision was made and handed to parliament to carry out. As is usual the careerists decided to fudge the decision for their own interests, across the board, and in doing so have completely undermined the centuries of hard fought for democratic process and rendered the 'mother of all parliaments' a complete joke and unnecessary inconvenience to the British people.
That some are whining over the 'loss from Europe' nobody is paying any attention to the loss from this country.
This isn't about nationalism or patriotism, far from it, it's about what level of control you allow the state to have.
All the right wingers on here moan about state interference, the left about accountability, nobody talks about devolving decisions and control to the people themselves.
Watch it all disappear in a couple of years.
You make some very interesting points.
The desire to leave was the narrow winning outcome of the referendum. Obviously the country is badly split on the issue.
The onus was on the Government rather than parliament as a whole (Commons and Lords) to choose the way to respond/deliver. It went full on for the Brexit means Brexit narrative going into the unknown with a tight deadline giving the impression, as politicians do, that they had all the answers. During this Brexit process the Commons fought hard and won the right to have a vote over the deal which the govt and its specific appointees ( Brexit Secretaries, Davis then Raab) might achieve which, iirc, the govt was very reluctant to allow early on.
May has taken increasing control over the UK Govt side of the negotiations, making it strongly about trusting her judgements/decisions and has now settled on a final position which is up for ratification or not by the House of Commons. So I am not sure the mother of all parliaments is really being rendered a complete joke although the members of the commons are certainly faced with a very awkward choice mixing up party loyalties, personal preferences about Europe, the views of their constituents in the referendum which might or might not have changed since summer 2016.
And more than everything else they are now faced with a choice between a deal most (it seems at the moment) do not favour and a possible no deal which most of them seem to think will be very bad news overall. What a mess! But the "carrying out the process" has been going on though since the referendum; lobbying the PM and her advisors, discussing/questioning in the Commons, debates left right and centre about the issue and there will be a vote on her deal.
Tory party issues kicked this process off and have been front and centre throughout. Divisions in the main opposition about the benefits of the EU have added to the complexity of the issue. The fact that the PM or whoever was negotiating could not just make Europe disappear and say "see ya we're off" meant negotiations would always be likely to lead to a version of leave that had never been specified by the referendum hence the continued chaos over the whole issue. Her clear reluctance to state that she thinks her deal is better than staying in is really telling IMO and shows what a mess she is in.
However, every voter can still try to influence their MP by direct contact prior to the vote and I am considering doing that with my own although I do not know what his current thinking/intention might be. I do not expect my contact with him will determine his vote or even influence it at all, but it is all we have apart from a general election every 5 years where most seats are pretty safe one way or the other anyway and any GE would not usually be a one issue vote. Interesting but very frustrating times these.
A carefully worded second referendum would be a further exercise in direct democracy and might produce a clear mandate to try to stop the whole process. It might also produce a very split result according to the options....... one of which might be "seek a better deal" which would still have to be ratified by the Commons!!!!!! Groundhog Day!!! It might also produce an even stronger mandate to leave although that in itself of course won't help with the process.
