On the leadership of the party I concede, strictly, your point. We don't vote for a PM, although clearly people knew who they were voting to be the PM.

But the government was elected with a manifesto commitment to protect our interests in Europe and hold a referendum. It was not, to my knowledge, invested with a mandate to act on that referendum in the way that it is doing.

Almost as though we don't directly get to elect the people who administer the whole thing.

Sounds a bit like the EU, but we all know[1] how that's a completely different out-of-control unelected bureaucracy[2].

[1] Have been told

[2] The EU parliament doesn't count, for vague reasons that change every time you hear it.