"In what strange example of a dictionary can you equate 'Global' with the UK membership of the EU?"
Iains raised the question, not me
Britain outside the E.U., because it is unable to "stand on its own feet", becomes dependent on being "Global"
Brexit is very much an isolationist policy - that is how it was sold - not unsimilar to Trump's "making America Great again"
Both are based on getting rid of foreigners - Trump is somewhat more forthright in blaming all America's ills on immigrants, the Brexit campaign was largely based on 'the urbanned menace' and the effects of that were seen immediately in the rise of racist incidents.
Even within the E.U., Britain's policy of importing goods produced under appalling conditions was immoral and detrimental to the British people as a whole by doing exactly what Ake and others have accused immigration of doing, undercutting British labour.
Can I make this "Irish" thing quite clear
I am a British citizen living in Ireland - I own no loyalty to or bear any responsibility for the actions of Irish politicians
My feeling is that, under the system we all live under, membership of Europe is better for both in the short term
If you want to propose a system that is to the advantage of the British (and Irish) people as a whole, you have me ear, and probably my support
As it stands, Brexit seems a return to the dark days of boom and slump, permanent high unemployment, accelerating differences between haves and have-nots and an economy run for the already over-privileged.
As I said earlier, the E.U. is an organisation of capitalist states - fine in the short term; in the long term, it has my support as the rope supports a hanging man - Greece confirmed that for me
Jim Carroll