Maybe I am too cartesian but leaving the largest free trade area in the world and 53 free trade agreements on behalf of free trade is weird. - Gérard Araud

I'm a person with a mixed bag of thoughts and feelings, just like you. I don't think one label will really encapsulate all of my opinions and beliefs, nor which beliefs i hold onto strongly and which i'm open to changing. Despite being interested in politics for roughly 5 years, i'd say i've never met a useful label for someone's political beliefs. All labels do is set people against one another, and often they contradict one another, because there are so many more dimensions to a person than "left" vs "right" and "regulation" vs "freedom" which you see a lot on 2D charts of political views. Who has only 2 dimensions to their character?

I can tell you want i want though. I want a government that is as transparent and digitised as possible. I want all laws to be encoded in publicly searchable databases, and as many statistics as possible to be available to the general public. For example, statistics on how many policemen stopped/arrested/convicted people, and the statistics of those people (pseudonymous). I want politicians to be data scientists, basically. I want more case-control studies. Databases for work-place accidents, illness, etc. I want a nation backed by information and statistics. I want copyright to be reformed such that no one can prevent the transmission of information, i.e. no illegal information, not even state secrets (if you can get them).

I want members of government to be selected out of the general population at random to address specific issues, to give a good sampling, and to serve the government to be seen as a calling and a sacrifice one makes for their country for the duration in which they serve. When there is a question the country needs to answer, a number of people are randomly selected and in many instances required by law (unless extenuating circumstances) to work on solving the problem within a time frame. They may need weeks or months to really get into the details of an issue, but once they are ready, they vote on a way forward. At the end of such a process, you'll have roughly the same result as a general vote (such as brexit), but at a fraction of the cost, and with significantly more information incorporated into each vote. At the same time, i want as little government interference where necessary, because I believe people will, the majority of the time, do the right thing when given the choice - particularly in a country which they deem to be inherently fair.

While i think all that is easy to understand, it gets a bit complicated when we talk about the boarders of a government's land, what people from other governments must accept to be on foreign land, and what it takes to change government. Ultimately, i'd be looking to copy-paste the above model for a successful digital government from the UK as a whole to England/Wales/Scotland/N.Ireland individually, and then let each country govern themselves and diverge so that their rules better reflect their culture. I'd want it made clear what land is owned privately, what land is owned publicly, and if land is owned privately and not publicly it may change governance (to an entirely new government!), but with a smooth interface between countries (i.e. the parameters change but the framework/encoding does not, or at least the change can be expressed simply to people moving from one government to the next). This is getting closer to the cantons of Switzerland, or sovereign boroughs. Direct (sampled) democracy.

This will ultimately lead to what i believe is utopia. Land that is owned by a culture, a very well defined culture, but people are free to essentially change their own cultural subscription at a whim, but must to so publicly. When two cultures interface, the differences are made immediate and obvious through technology, and the it is well defined how each should interact with one-another (if at all).

Obviously i can't see now how it would all pan-out, but the first step is to digitise the currency, the law, an individual's information/statistics, and the information the government collects. But of course we are a million miles away from that in the UK. Certainly stepping out of the EU is a step in the right direction.

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