I don't want the government and opposition "to follow the will of the people." By that criterion we'd probably have hanging, flogging, obligatory singing of God Save The Queen, conscription and mass repatriation. We elect politicians to make the big decisions in the interests of the country, not pass the buck back to ordinary people who have far less grasp of the issues. And the opposition is there to challenge the government and hold it to account. The whole of the brexit process, from calling the referendum onward, has been a massive failure of democracy.