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Another well-qualified idiot who thinks he lives in a democracy, where MPs never veer from legislating as close as they can, to the desires of the majority of their constituents on each issue, rather than for their own preference (even if they genuinely believe that it would be their electors' preference, if they could really understand the issue as fully as the MP does), or their Party's preference because they want their "team to win", as Cameron put it, or because they are, by the most obscene, hypocritical institution of our supposed democratic Parliament, whipped into abandonment of their own judgement of what is right (coincidentally, of course, preserving their place/job in the system).
I don't know if Goldsmith has been around long enough to know of Ted Short, Leader of the House, but this is he: "Although one would not expect Hon Members to go against the wishes of the people, they will remain free to do so." - Referendum Act debate 1975.
And a seminal textbook for would-be politicians, "The Civic Culture/Revisited", 1963/1981, counsels "Although it is desirable that members of the public FEEL influential, the ordinary citizen cannot be PERMITTED to have much actual influence. ... Democracy exists more as a MYTH than as a reality."
Goldsmith can't (surely?) believe that this self-serving, duplicitous system is less dishonest than Assange.