22 June

I've noticed the increasingly desperate way politicians talk about 'mandates'. In the UK they've spent more than 3 years arguing what a referendum vote actually meant, what mandate it gave the government. I think it's a great example of one of my favourite ideas - the problem is the solution. This mandate stuff is telling us that representative politics is breaking, there are no mandates to do anything now, the people want more say in an ongoing way. Mandates are old power structures desperately trying to hold on.