He is not so much ignoring the people's say, more taking contradiction and rolling it together.
He is just far too soft to ever hold serious political office. Open dialogue with a country fundamentally and constitutionally devoted to eroding the democratic will of the Falkland Islanders, a dedication to nuclear disarmament that flies in the face of international security. He is nobel, in an odd way I admire him, yet it shows such naivety. What is the point in being principled and wanting to apply them if they make you unable to get to a point of power when you can do that?
An idealist is by very definition unable to deal with political reality. That labour elected him as leader is the most incredible and dangerous political event in modern times. They will hopefully become a total irrelevance as a result, congratulations Ed Milliband for allowing the voting system that allowed this and ensured the destruction of Labour, the destruction of one of the most essential political parties in the history of our nation.