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This is (nearly) all true, but I don't see how it's an argument for government through referenda rather than through representative parliamentary democracy. All it means is that the political parties haven't yet caught up with the way the views of different groups in the population are evolving...

Correct - that's pretty much what I'm saying. Given that it's a package, and given that most of the other things in the UKIP package were not hugely controversial (and most of them overlapped with one or other of the main parties), but the main stand-out policy they had was EU-leaving, if...

No, not the only way - there is a political party that has always supported leaving the EU, and has a range of other policies, most of which can also be found in the manifestos of one or other of the main parties. So the main way in which that party stands out (indeed its main rationale for...

Whether I was in favour of remain or leave is not relevant to the point I was making. I entirely accept that, having had the referendum, and there being a majority to leave the EU, we have to live with that outcome, whether or not we voted for it ourselves. My point was about Cameron's judgement...

You'd think so, but I wonder. If I remember correctly there was a massive 'remain' majority in Witney (around 70% for remain), so an opportunity for a classic LibDem by-election upset among disappointed Home Counties remainers?

So... he said he wouldn't resign as PM if he lost the referendum, then he did. He said, on stepping down as PM, that he'd remain an MP until the next election, and now he isn't. Not just a terrible PM, leading the UK into a wholly unneccessary referendum with all of the fallout from that, but...