26-06-2016 12:41 via theguardian.com

Brexit is a rejection of globalisation

The EU has failed to protect its population from a global economic model that many believe is not working for themThe age of globalisation began on the day the Berlin Wall came down. From that moment in 1989, the trends evident in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s accelerated: the free movement of capital, people and goods; trickle-down economics; a much diminished role for nation states; and a belief that market forces, now unleashed, were unstoppable.There has been push back against glob
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