19 May

Here’s to me the greatest lesson of the election. Government is *always* just us, the people. In the past there was no way to mobilise all of us at once in real-time, so it led to a perception that a small group of people ‘lead’, and the rest of us are led. But politicians are just us, they’re the people too. Social media predicted the outcome of this election, because it knew. Because it’s us. It shapes politics in real time, every day, there’s not the big gap any more between leaders and led. Polls are a 19th-century idea of politics, where there are leaders, and then the people, who are surveyed about what they think. Social media are not just better polls, they’re taking over politics itself.