Well as a matter of fact I know Richmond very well and have spent many days there this year and last. Planes are a major issue there, but in this election all the main candidates were anti-runway so there was nothing to kick against. Sarah Olney is just as much against the airport expansion and bulldozing villages as the Trust Fund Kid, so your point falls flat on its face. Maybe the people of Richmond, rather than generally just wanting to have it back at the oiks, are better at spotting a racist, spoiled-brat charlatan than you are.

There is nothing democratic about a referendum in which millions of less-qualified people are asked to decide an issue that the more-qualified MPs that are elected to represent them should be deciding, a situation made far worse by a disgraceful campaign that did everything to lie and scare and nothing to inform. If that's your idea of democracy, I feel sorry for you.