Dance beneath the fireflies on an empty road

I knew someone who used to say how glad she was that she had a job in the "caring professions". No, I don't know what she meant either. I don't think it was that kind of care. But then I also knew another person who said there were "no victims only willing volunteers". I'm pretty sure she meant that you bring it all on yourself by the choices you make.

But maybe not. Maybe both of them should listen to Manchester's finest philosopher : "I never felt like I had anything important to say".

Essentially all of this tripe means we are all trying to create, define and then churn out our own narrative, and make others believe it too. We are all politicians at heart, especially the ones amongst you who say any of the following, or similar:

1. They are all in it for themselves, just as bad as each other.
2. I'm going to weigh all the evidence carefully and vote in the national interest
3. We need strong, stable, leadership.

Then there's Theresa, or is it Teresa, I can never remember. "Let me be quite clear". Please just stop talking to us as if we were all children, or if you must, at least come down to our level and use baby language. I know you are a vicar's daughter, but that is not a qualification to lord it all over the rest of us.

We don't need strength, unless it's 953, and preferably welded not silver-brazed. Stability? Just keep moving and it happens, you will stay upright. Leadership? Over-rated. We are all individuals.

What we need is a bit more chaos. Some creativity, born of diversity of thought, not monolithic groupthink. Have you ever heard of the Stockdale paradox? Defined by Jim Collins in his book, "Good to Great", it's essentially the ability to be optimistic, whilst confronting the brutal facts of your reality, objectively.

This Brexit mess, well, I hear all my fellow Remainers gleefully pointing out, largely correctly, how up shit creek we are without a paddle. Whilst the Brexiteers stick their heads in the sand, with "Brexit means Brexit and we are going to make a success of it" rubbish.

A lot of things are going to go wrong, and most of us are going to have worse lives with a "hard Brexit". So let's objectively accept how much being in the single market benefits us, and embrace it. Put your prejudice about difference to one side and vote for openness, tolerance, economic wellbeing. You can still be out of the EU if you want. But don't pretend that anything other than this would be a total shambles.