If you take a poll in any assembly, including I am sure this one, you will find some are strongly for and some are strongly against globalisation. To my mind, neither view – for or against – is correct. The only rational view is to accept it as an emerging and powerful global reality which has a momentum of its own.
Our job as an independent nation / state is to ensure that we maximise the advantage for our country and minimise the risks. It has both pluses and minuses like any other major global economic change – say, the industrial th revolution of the 18 century. Some countries gained, some lost – partly because of the then prevailing political circumstances.