When things don't go as expected.....

So maybe that didn't go as you expected?

We have choices.

We can blame, complain, and allow our fear of the changes we didn't want to take us hostage.

Or we can recognise that democracy is messy, particularly when it is given full rein, but at the same time notice the stuff beyond the fear.

For whatever reason, people have felt remote and isolated from power, and they were able to share and mobilise that fear in ways they have never been able to do before.

We can see other areas where people who care feel detached from the forces that govern them, particularly in sectors where profit is not the priority. In the NHS, Education, Local Councils, and many Charities where people are constantly asked to do more with less.

More with less is fine to a point, but it is finite. At some point, we have to find a different way. If being connected the way we are means anything, it means that we can find those ways - with or without the permission of those who assume they have the power.

Perhaps BREXIT is …