I guess even David Cameron,George Osborne and the rest can now see the disaster unfolding as the referendum debate sinks to even lower levels as the rightwing press gets increasingly hysterical about immigration (Gove: EU camp treats us like children, 19 April). This is all thanks to their focus on the potential damage to the economy and immigration control as the main issues in our relationship with the European Union. Bigger minds would own looked wider and deeper to think about how to shape our countrys future and its relationships with the wider world.
The reality is that, and in an increasingly globalised world,we need supranational government to try to control the forces which are shaping our lives and will achieve so with growing intensity in the years ahead. Amazon, Apple, and Google and the rest of the global organisations are totally unaccountable to any nation,they exist only to satisfy their shareholders and they will treat us like silly children. We own absolutely no control over them and their activities, and their power will only continue to grow, and with even more unpleasant companies moving in to cyberspace.
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Source: theguardian.com