"This is a complete abuse of democracy. M.Ps were elected. Conservative party members other than MPs were not."
I don't follow. The Conservative Party is a group of individuals with shared beliefs and with its own rules who (among other things) offer candidates for election. I fail to see why or how the general population can be part of that. Democracy doesn't come into it. How would the public be in a position to elect members of a political club? Why would they even want to?
Once candidates stand in an election the voters do their bit - that is where democracy comes in.
Both the Tory Party and the Parliamentary Conservative Party are pretty much private clubs with their own rules. If you don't like how they work, your options are either to join up and work to bring about reform, or to ignore them completely and never vote Tory.
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