That is the point of freedom. If there is no general consensus as to what is to be done, maybe government should do nothing. Leaving a country in the EU is not a blow for democracy nor is it doing nothing to promote individual freedom. It is abdication of sovereignty to a crushing tyrannical bureaucratic regime of Euroweenies.
“If there is no general consensus as to what is to be done, maybe government should do nothing. “ — you mean that the British government shouldn’t have proceeded with Brexit in your opinion because it was too close?