Fast and fundamental change is a fearful thing, but change we must

They have created a future where there will be no Britain — ‘Great’ or otherwise, writes Gerard Howlin

The EU is not an unelected ‘them’ — it is ‘us’, a union of 28 democratic countries. Its decisions are democratically arrived at and accountable because the mandate underpinning them is from those 28 national governments and a European Parliament directly elected by every European citizen.

So-called ‘austerity’ is simply a set of sensible reforms, by and large, that were too long delayed and regrettably have not gone far enough. ‘Globalisation’ is the modern international economy from which Ireland has overwhelmingly benefited. We need to be crystal clear of that which we speak.