As UKIP representatives get an ever increasingly easy ride on TV sofas and in radio studios, pardon the imagery, one is left wondering what the fixation is in with the better relationship with Europe.

This is particularly timely, as we keep on being told about the benefits of globalisation.

Take for example, your video from China, your iPad from China, your TV from China, and your lamb burger from Korea.

The argument for the European Union was made by Nick Clegg.

It therefore was doomed for failure.

Clegg, fresh from his recent successes in the AV referendum and boundary changes, said that the five-year event horizon for the European Union was “much the same”.

Rather than talking about employment rights for unfair dismissal, neoliberal Clegg found enough muster to sing the praises of ‘roaming charges’.

The NHS has recruited from abroad at the top. Simon Stevens was at the top of a US multinational health corporation. The latest glitzy plan is to send the NHS’ top 50 executives to Harvard Business School.

But in fairness Stevens should be able to spot certain issues, one would think.

Cherrypicking.

Race to the bottom cost-wise.

Profitability.

How to give contracts, such as in technology or innovation, to the private sector.

How to have large companies feeding off underpaid workers with zero hour contracts in the care sector.

And so it shouldn’t be any different for the Labour Party.

There’s never any shortage of money for war, but we shut down hospitals with glee.

Thou shalt not kill, except when George Bush tells you to.

Everytime I think of market forces, I think of cardboard boxes under Waterloo Bridge.

There’s no doubt that the free market has left a legacy.

This is not a legacy of ‘liberalising’ you as Steve Webb MP, pensions minister, sounded this week, in telling you how wonderful the pension industry might predict when you can die.

This is because Government increasingly is being populated by trumped up multinational junkies.

There’s no democracy any more. We’re simply represented by politicians.

And so it should not be any surprise that Labour has turned to the US for insights into the legacy left by multinational companies.

Yes, inequality is an anticipated result of fragmented private markets.

The failure of trickle down economics has been known for decades.

So Labour will undoubtedly like to feed into this through the Axelrod Effect.

But will they, once elected, go back to standing up for the concerns of hardworking people in the City?