The UK is not a democracy, it’s a modified monarchy with responsible ministers who govern.
Plebiscites are foreign to their traditions and don’t really count for anything.
Death by Bureaucrap
Totalitarianism in all forms is Evil. Progressive, Socialist, Marxist, Fascist, Communist, Dictator, Islamist, Bureaucrap. ALL Evil.
It’s a representative democracy. A plebiscite (referendum) is a device of direct democracy. Trying tobolt a device of direct democracy on to a system based on representative democracy is always going to be messy.