This is the core argument of a certain kind of radicalism currently popular on the right. It's deeply antidemocratic. Here is why. Thread.
1. MP's are elected by the public to make laws on their behalf. Civil servants are appointed by the executive to implement it's policy.
2. It wouldn't make sense for MPs to do whatever the executive wanted to do. There would be no need for them. We could just vote the executive in and be done with it.
3. The legislature in the British system also functions as a check on the executive. It can dismiss it through a vote of no confidence and hold inquiries through select committees etc.
4. The second mistake is to say they have a duty to implement the will of the people. They don't. And even if they did, the will of their voters, and the will of the people as a whole are not the same thing.
5. Even if the 2016 referendum was one kind of will of the people, the 2017 election was another.
6. This argument is just right wing Lenism. It's completely alien to the Conservative tradition or classical liberalism of the English school.
