IT isn’t necessary to have the foresight of da Vinci or Verne to know the likely outcome of the trend towards a global economy and centralised world government.

As things are in this country, it is hard enough to sort out problems with employers, governments and industry.

Imagine if this was broadened to a global scale with the seat of government not hundreds or thousands, but possibly tens of thousands of miles away.

As the effects of automation become increasingly apparent, and the demand for low skilled workers diminishes, human nature dictates that the sharing of goods and services between the global elite and those disenfranchised by globalism will become increasingly disproportionate.

After all, one can imagine some people thinking, why should people who have no work be given things for free?

Yet this disturbing prospect is developing with the full support of many metropolitan middle class people, who think that because they work principally with their brains and not their hands, will be exempt from falling behind in the prosperity stakes.

As we all know, however, artificial intelligence is improving logarithmically year on year, and it is possible to foresee a future where mundane managerial and executive jobs are performed electronically.

The only hope for we plebeians is to resist calls to change our minds over Brexit, tell Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson, Tim Farron and Nick Clegg to go and tell it on the mountain and leave the EU as soon as possible.

Andy Baldock, Villa Grove, York