"My expectation is that Brexit will enable the UK to react to, and exploit, world changes,"
In order to do that, Britain needs industries - to be self-sufficient, if not to export
At present we are reliant on cheap imports produced in countries paying starvation wages under appalling conditions
When these conditions produce a flow of economic migrants, we close our doors to them
We export arms to dynastic tyrants like the Saudis our Assad ( it has already been announced that this particular war criminal is "here to stay" and the forthcoming immigration laws will ascertain that there will be no sanctuary for his victims when he bengins to extract his revenge on his opponents
We involve ourselves in oil wars which produce floods of refugees - we would rather watch their children be pulled dead out of the sea rather than give them the sanctuary Britain has always been proud of in the past
Not only have we reverted to the predatory nature of Empire, but we have allowed our 'great and good' to brutalise us as human beings.
Jim Carroll