Cannydc wrote:"Of course, workers never had any rights before we joined the EU, I know that because I worked before the EU turned us into one of it's client states."
We had unions then. That was before they were eviscerated by Thatcher.
Now we will have neither union power nor embedded workers rights.
The turkeys really have voted for Christmas.
We still have unions, more importantly though what we have now that we didn't have then is the 'internet' and 24/7 wall to wall news looking for stories to fill up the dead air space.
Add that to governments and businesses petrified of bad publicity which goes viral quicker than the common cold and things get truned around very quickly. As soon as the Sports Direct fiasco was exposed, Mike Ashley was at Shirebrook sacking people left, right and centre and taking over personal control of changes in their working practices, before MP's could even get themselves out of bed. And when they eventually did, they were all over him like a cheap suit.
As a client state of the EU the MP's would have just held up their hands in faux dismay and told us
"it's all down to the EU there is nothing they can do", whilst Ashley would have sat back and laughed, knowing that it would take the EU years before they did anything, if they did anything at all.
You only need look at how the EU have acted toward the UK since we told them
"Thanks but no thanks, we've had 40 years of the Euro boys club and it's not for us" Do you really think they'd treat us any better if they had complete and total control over us? .... if you do then you are delusional.
Remainers are the turkeys, trying to convince us it's good to place our faith in a giant European sage and onion stuffing producer.
[quote="Cannydc"]"Of course, workers never had any rights before we joined the EU, I know that because I worked before the EU turned us into one of it's client states."
We had unions then. That was before they were eviscerated by Thatcher.
Now we will have neither union power nor embedded workers rights.
The turkeys really have voted for Christmas.[/quote]
We still have unions, more importantly though what we have now that we didn't have then is the 'internet' and 24/7 wall to wall news looking for stories to fill up the dead air space.
Add that to governments and businesses petrified of bad publicity which goes viral quicker than the common cold and things get truned around very quickly. As soon as the Sports Direct fiasco was exposed, Mike Ashley was at Shirebrook sacking people left, right and centre and taking over personal control of changes in their working practices, before MP's could even get themselves out of bed. And when they eventually did, they were all over him like a cheap suit.
As a client state of the EU the MP's would have just held up their hands in faux dismay and told us [i]"it's all down to the EU there is nothing they can do"[/i], whilst Ashley would have sat back and laughed, knowing that it would take the EU years before they did anything, if they did anything at all.
You only need look at how the EU have acted toward the UK since we told them[i] "Thanks but no thanks, we've had 40 years of the Euro boys club and it's not for us" [/i] Do you really think they'd treat us any better if they had complete and total control over us? .... if you do then you are delusional. :shake head:
Remainers are the turkeys, trying to convince us it's good to place our faith in a giant European sage and onion stuffing producer.