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I would say universal public education and universal public health care."Public" here means that the whole of society pays for education and health care, with the less well-to-do paying less but still retaining the right to both services.Right behind these two essential aspects of socialism we would have the rest of the social safety net: pensions, aid for food, housing and utilities, job-searching, etc.The "success" of applying these policies and practices is quite evident: society is better off, it leverages the talent and abilities of more people (those who would not be able to pay for their education privately), it alleviates the burden upon families and others for caring for the sick, it promotes better public health and, in the end, it saves resources. The end result is a happier, saner, less stressed and more community-oriented society.

Because “socialism” is a very wide-ranging concept. It is in the end a philosophical concept, it’s not easily and objectively definable as, say, “a chair”.So you can be pretty sure that when people such as me speak about “socialism” we don’t mean communism, tyranny, Leninism, not even Marxism. What happens in Venezuela is a horrid mixture of half-baked communism along with authoritarianism and the “strongman” aspect of culture, bad economic ideas, repression and the splitting of society in two irreconcilable sides following the populist or neo-peronist theories of Argentinian political writer Ernesto Laclau.Of course, some people, old-style communists, rancid Leninists (who love to call themselves post-Marxist as if that really meant something other than Marxists) are in love with the ruin of Venezuela and its so-called 21st Century Socialism. They are not the same as democratic or libertarian socialists.The question is akin to asking why Norwegians are so fond of their King Harald (I like the guy a lot, by the way) given that Mary Queen of Scots was also a monarch. Being “a monarchy” means just that much. Being “socialist” basically means we believe in equality, opportunity, justice, social solidarity and a right of everyone to have a dignified life and socially supported institutions (public education, public health, pensions, aid to the poorest paid by all). Little more.

Can I migrate from the UK to Ireland and seek asylum?No, you can’t — any more than you could “emigrate” from London to Newcastle. You just go and live there. Any British citizen can move to the Republic of Ireland, buy or rent property, find work there, and vote in local and national elections (but not referendums — only Irish citizens can do that, and you would be a resident but not a citizen unless you applied for Irish citizenship). The converse is true for Irish citizens moving to the UK; this has been so since the creation of the Irish republic in 1923 and it is called the Common Travel Area.You could, if you wished, apply for Irish citizenship, and both countries recognise duel citizenship so you could hold both. As an Irish citizen you could apply for an Irish passport, which would get over any possible travel restriction within the EU that might be imposed post Brexit. If you have any Irish ancestors, or are married to an Irish citizen, then citizenship is a simple process. You could apply for an Irish passport simply upon the basis of ancestry without having to seek citizenship if that was what you wished, and there is currently a flood of British citizens seeking Irish passports on the basis of ancestry. If you reach pensionable aid, UK state pensions can be paid into an Irish bank account and be subject to Irish tax rather than British.To what extent Brexit will change this is open to conjecture, but the people of both countries point out that the Common Travel Area existed long before the EU was ever thought of, and both governments are adamant that it must continue.