Could a percentage of the surprisingly high Brexit ‘leave’ vote across the UK be understood as individuals and groups reaching their limit of tolerance for rule-making by groups of people that they don’t feel connected with and don’t understand?

There is a sense of disempowerment if individuals and communities don’t feel they can influence their local environment.

That sense of disempowerment can quickly lead to social instability and unrest.

In the modern age, multi-tiered bureaucracies and compliance regimes are becoming so complex that citizens and groups of people that operate as corporate entities are struggling to understand and keep pace.

Every system that individuals and families have to negotiate – the education system, the health system, the social welfare system, the justice system – are challengingly complicated and de-humanising to deal with on many levels.

The picture is similar with the myriad of complexity facing corporates such as start-up companies and residential corporate bodies.

For existing established companies, whether for-profit or non-profit, and even for government organisations, the complexity is a growing overhead that hampers sustainability and effectiveness.

In most cases, each of the individual rules and rule-domains (such as health & safety) are well-intentioned and coherent in themselves. But it is the accumulative effect of these complex and sometimes counter-productive regimes which causes the problem.

In the age of the internet, where each individual can explore the depth of human knowledge and experience across any field of human endeavour, rule-making and representation models need to be much improved to maintain community support and the expectations of self-empowerment in communities all over the world.

Are the EU and the multi-tiered governance structures of each member state on track to make those improvements?

Could the UK outside of the EU mechanism lead the way towards a more balanced and inclusive human society?

That’s the key challenge facing every nation and our world as a whole.