Be brave

I've come to wonder if there is any way to talk about change without incurring the easy horrors of utopian thinking, patriotism, scapegoating and group think. But in the end this is what the vote means for me - a free blank space. I don't mean it in a Zen think nothing way. I mean something far scarier - a blank canvas. Do you think given this we can fill it? Can we have sufficiently colourful debates, arguments, choices and judgements? This is not about voting one side in, it is about an entirely new political discourse. It's about wanting more debate, not less. Don't vote Yes to bully anyone else into your way of thinking, or let them bully you. Vote yes to stop it. Vote yes to really argue. It is the side that I've seen more variety of participation and nuanced debate from. Vote yes to find more answers to our social issues than castigation of the vulnerable. Thanks BBC, guardian etc.. For the warning. Thanks for making us out to be ignorant bigots or violent radicals. Thanks for not supporting the resurgence of democratic engagement because you haven't noticed or don't credit us with the ability to handle it. You teach us to be vigilant, which we need to be, but don't preach to us about uniformity of debate as you have offered zero alternatives for decades. You gave us a wall, let us paint