Brexit

This blog started as a rant. I needed to get out of my system all the grief and anger I'd felt after the EU referendum result was announced nearly 2 weeks ago. It's been a sad and sometimes hopeless journey, not helped by the spectacle of how some of our politicians are behaving in response to the Brexit vote. I'm saddened by the hatred and division that is separating us now as a country and wonder how long it will take for that to be healed.

It feels that some of the healing needs to come through greater participation in political matters. This can no longer be left to self-interested politicians who're privatising our national assets for their own benefit. We need to protect institutions like our NHS for the good of everyone. It seems likely that if we leave the EU we'll have to be ever more vigilant to protect those institutions and policies which protect us all whether it's the health service, workers' rights or the environment. For the most part we cannot leave this to politicians. That was why this whole debacle happened in the first place and all of us need to be involved, at some level, in building a country and consensus that serve us all and not the privileged elite. And beyond that we have to take time to find compassion for ourselves in the places where we might be hurting right now and for all the others out there who might also be in pain, regardless of colour, creed or sexual orientation.