We know that Brexit can be achieved in an orderly

And so it's really time to be adult about this and put the work in. Educate yourself, get active and put the spade work in because nobody can do it for you - and nobody will spoonfeed you. You should, if you are even familiar with the basics of what democracy is, know that the EU is not a democracy and it does not work on the basis of cooperation or any of the other things it pretends to be.

It was set up out of fear and paranoia of what could happen based on the geopolitics of 1950. We're in an internet age now and the institutions we have are no longer fit for purpose and will resist reform until the bitter end. Now is your chance to change that - to break with the past and start designing the future. A vote to remain is to hold this quagmire together and prevent there being a political market correction. And you know from basic economics what happens when you artificially prevent such from happening.

We know that Brexit can be achieved in an orderly, relatively risk free way - but no, it won't be easy and yes we will have to work doubly hard to escape the gravitational pull of the EU and it's not going to be completed any time inside the next ten years. As I say, Brexit is process, not an event.

It is going to be a huge commercial and diplomatic challenge, but one that will almost certainly reinvigorate politics and public participation and will pave the way to complete domestic democratic reform which I think we can all agree is long overdue. The only certainty the Remain camp can offer is that things will stay exactly as they are for a period of maybe ten or twenty years and then they suddenly become manifestly worse.

This is your chance to do it better. This is your one and only opportunity for change. After which, should you vote to remain, nothing your government does to you is anything you don't deserve. When the total absence of democracy massively screws you over and they come knocking at your door to take the last of what you have, don't expect any sympathy from me.

Instead of that though, we can be something better. We can be and should be an independent nation with a seat at all the global top tables, leading Europe out of stagnation and running our own affairs. We should have our own trade, aid, agriculture, fishing, energy and environment policy, and we don't need the EU gun to our heads to do it well.

More to the point, we should have the power to instruct our government and the power to say no to it. We should be the benchmark for democracy, not subordinate to a (for the moment) benign oligarchy. We paid too much for the freedoms we have. Don't make us pay for them again.