It the EU debate has taught us anything, it is anger.  A nation voted out of anger and frustration, now there is anger at the result, at the lies, at the economic mess we are in and now I say, let's use this anger.  We have long joked that it doesn't matter how you vote, the politician always gets elected.  Let us use this anger and take a long, hard look at the system that has got us to this point.

The second thing we have learnt in the last week is that voting can change things, it can make massive changes.   We should use our votes and our anger to actually make this country a better place and we can do it.

I have been getting cross about politics for quite a long time, my friends have put up with a lot of ranting of the "it is just not right," type.  I even tried to raise a particular subject with my local councilors, their answer?  "have you ever thought of standing for the local council?"

No, I have not thought about standing for election, or more accurately, I have looked at the option briefly and decided that it most definitely not for me.  We have politicians to do that.  The trouble is that trust in UK politicians is at an all time low. The system has been broken for years and we have all put up with it.  Only now the country is heading for a crisis is it becoming clear how badly the system fails to deliver for a modern country.

We are proud of our history in the this country.  Unfortunately, in the same way that we are discovering that Victorian water systems were ground breaking and revolutionary but not fit for purpose (ask Yorkshire Water about none pumping, gravity feed water engineering sometime) we should also be asking if being the proud owners of one of the world's oldest democracies is actually a good thing for us today.

The last few days has been a massive shock to the whole country.  Even the people who won, the politicians that won and have to deal with their victory are walking around looking shocked and stunned.  Mr Farage is dancing in the streets but he is not the one who has to push the buttons, sign the cheques and carry the can.  He can waltz off into the sunset and sit smugly on the sidelines while the elected, Westminster MPs have to sort out the mess.

Those who lost are also having to have a re-think. Usually the loosing side sit around for four years quietly saying "I told you so" and "don't blame me, you are the one that voted for them" until another election comes around and we all have another go.  This time there is no second go, no change of mind.  We have voted and realised that our system is lacking in checks and balances.

Politics in this country has been characterised by an endless merry-go-round of small changes that alter nothing. Until the EU Referendum.

We wall woke up to the fact that our vote can and does change things and that vote is not a joke to be used lightly.

What is most startling is that while the country is reeling with shock, jubilation and despair in roughly equal measures all the elected politicians seem to be doing is carrying on with business as usual.

The man who put the country in such a dangerous position, the elected leader who is supposed to, well lead, has resigned.  He is supposed to run the country but as the Pound falls on the stock markets, prices rise at the petrol pumps (to be followed the supermarkets and heating bills soon after I suspect) does he stand up and do something useful to calm the money markets?  Does he bring out the emergency plan the government put together just in case?  Does he do anything at all helpful?  No, he walks away at the time when the country needs stability the most.

Mr Cameron, you should not be allowed to walk away.  You made this mess, now have the courage to deal with the consequences!  If you resign then you should pay back the salary that you have been earning for running the country and you should pay back in full because your job is to make this country a better place and you have failed.  Suddenly we see that the whole country has been put on performance targets but MPs don't have to go through an annual review at work and justify their pay rise like everyone else.  Yes, they might loose their jobs but that is what safe seats are for.

And the opposition, what are they doing?  They are busy getting back to what the Labour Party do best at the moment, ignoring the people that traditionally vote for them in order to keep their own seats in Westminster.  They immediately announce that they have no confidence in their leader and that they won't be able to get elected into  Government with Jeremy Corbin in charge.  Wake up and smell the coffee, your voters all voted for him to be leader.  They only voted for you because you wear a red ribbon and you are a slightly better choice than the person with the blue ribbon.

No one is actually looking at the bigger problem here, that our democracy is not working for the country!  Even the Conservatives must now realise that first past the post is not a good system of voting but I am talking about more than that.

I think the system of local MPs is not working either.  At the moment, if a large factory closes and thousands of people in one area loose their jobs then under our system of government only one MP actually cares about it.  Sure, others might make noises and if you are lucky and the right party is in power they may try and help but at the end of the day the local MP is the one that cares.

I was lucky enough to visit the Houses of Parliament for a brief visit years ago.   The government were bringing in the CRB checking system and the charity sector realised that this was going to bankrupt them.  The Guide Association hosted an event on the terrace at Westminster so we could lobby on behalf of the rest of the charity sector.  Also in the news at the time was the IRA.  They bombed two different English cities on the previous 2 Mondays and the whole country was worried who would be next.  Everyone in the country cared, this was a big issue and any city could find itself targeted a few days later.

When we arrived the ushers apologised and told us that there would not be many people at our reception as there was an emergency vote on Northern Ireland happening that evening.  We understood, this was important stuff, why would they come and talk about CRB checks when so many lives were at stake.

Anyway a small number did turn up and the GA staff quietly managed all the conversations.  Over the evening I pretended to actually live in Durham (where I was living), Tyneside, the West Midlands and Worcestershire (where I came from), because an elected MP, it turns out, will only actually engage with someone who is able to vote for them.  They will rapidly ask where you live and politely get rid of you very quickly if you are not their voter.  So the event comes to an end and the ushers ask us if we would like to visit the House.

Of we go to see democracy in action.  We were going to watch an important debate about our National Security.  What we found was about 6 MPs in a nearly empty room.  Shocked and stunned we ask the usher where they all are.  It is a Northern Ireland debate he explains.  Yes, the IRA are bombing us at the moment, where are our MPs we ask?  Well, gone home early of course.  This is a Northern Ireland debate.  Only the MPs from Northern Ireland care about being here tonight.

That evening about 20 young women who were politically interested and motivated realised that there was no point in even trying. We had it all wrong.  The elected MPs were only interested in their own area.  They didn't care about the country as a whole.  They didn't care who got bombed next Monday, as long as it wasn't them!

Can we blame them for going home early?  No, because at the moment that is how our system works.  Their job is to care just about the small area that voted for them.  The Cabinet is concerned with the business end of things.  As long as they get enough money going around the system to stop us going bankrupt then they are doing their job.  They all sit in safe seats so they don't have to worry about keeping their voters happy.  They can assume they will win their seats and the problems of an industrial wasteland that was our country and once provided all the money?  Not their problem!

So lets use the current anger we all have!  Vote for another referendum if you want but I say, lets call for a complete change, lets call for a change of how we run the country.  Not just a change of colour but a whole change in how we vote for them, how they work and how we hold them responsible.

We voted for change, lets call for some real change.  Yes, this is a big ask, yes, it would be expensive, yes we would have to learn a lot about political science and economy but isn't it about time that every kid in Britain learnt enough basic political and economic science to hold their politicians to account and not just those who go to Eton?  

I want to put together a Change.Org petition.  I want to stop feeling helpless, I want the whole country to stop feeling helpless.  Now I need advice and to probably spend a lot of time learning about how other countries run themselves.