By voting for Brexit, the British people have shown a greater appetite for risk than the creative sector, which needs to take the public more seriously or risk becoming irrelevant, says Martyn Perks of the Dissenters Design Network.

A general election has been called. No one knows exactly what the UK public will do, but they will likely, again, take a huge risk and vote for the unknown, as they did when they voted in favour of Brexit.
The 2016 EU referendum was a turning point. The UK public, in the face of "expert" advice and exhortations, voted to leave. In the 2017 general election, and again in this year's European elections, they voted for leave-supporting ideas while questioning the old party allegiances. This represents the germ of a new, unarticulated radicalism against the old political order. We are witnessing a momentous shift in public sentiment, and in political attitudes too. Arguably, many people who have been politically marginalised have voted radically because they want change ? one that makes them feel represented and listened to.
What is striking about recent events is that the old categories of "left" and "right" no longer apply in British politics to the same degree. New political lines are being drawn ? leave or remain, uphold the vote or demand a new one. What tacitly underlies such broad sentiment is a recognition that the old forms of representation seem deeply inadequate.
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