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I read the news today oh boy! Page 2,599

Quote: lofthouse @ 18th June 2023, 12:34 PM

"Brexit: Poll suggests just 9% of Britons think decision to leave European Union more of a success than failure"

So far! The trouble with snap polls is they give instant results based on too limited timescales. And roughly half would have been remain voters at the time. No one seriously expected an instant change for the better, especially with so much hard resistance to it, from UK hating Eurocrats to greedy meanfisted British businesses who don't want to go back to forking out decent wages for British workers with a mortgage and family to pay for instead of living 15 to a rented hovel like the immigrants can.

The whole economy was in a dire state and held hostage to the huge over supply of cheap labour due to years of free movement from desperate to come here countries with poor employment opportunities and wages and a lack of consumer goodies to enjoy. If we'd stayed, we'd all be destined to live like 2nd world post communist block immigrants with just enough to get by, because an endless supply of labour would keep wages forever low. We are still just trying to repair the damage the EU did to us and that's not done overnight, especially when you have so many trying to wreck the Brexit progress.

Yeah, yeah, it's everyone else's fault that Brexit's a shitshow...
For Alfred's next trick, his world famous ostrich imitation!

Consider a pandemic and a Russian war - nobody in Europe is coming out of those well.
In or out would not make much difference. But go ahead and conflate those events as Brexit.

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 18th June 2023, 6:34 PM

So far! The trouble with snap polls is they give instant results based on too limited timescales. And roughly half would have been remain voters at the time. No one seriously expected an instant change for the better, especially with so much hard resistance to it, from UK hating Eurocrats to greedy meanfisted British businesses who don't want to go back to forking out decent wages for British workers with a mortgage and family to pay for instead of living 15 to a rented hovel like the immigrants can.

The whole economy was in a dire state and held hostage to the huge over supply of cheap labour due to years of free movement from desperate to come here countries with poor employment opportunities and wages and a lack of consumer goodies to enjoy. If we'd stayed, we'd all be destined to live like 2nd world post communist block immigrants with just enough to get by, because an endless supply of labour would keep wages forever low. We are still just trying to repair the damage the EU did to us and that's not done overnight, especially when you have so many trying to wreck the Brexit progress.

And Brexit hasn't and won't solve the problem you feel so strongly about.
People have just gone further afield for workers.
And migration is going up.
And it's not boat people.
It's govt approved work visas.
And, as we drift from the EU regulatory framework - if the current lot have their way - rights and working conditions for those that do come (and the rest of us) will worsen.
Which was always the plan.

Quote: Lazzard @ 19th June 2023, 10:06 AM

rights and working conditions for those that do come (and the rest of us) will worsen.
Which was always the plan.

Sounds like one of those so-called "conspiracy theories" you're usually dismissive of. The difference being, of course, you believe this one.

Nah he's absolutely spot on there

Fact

Many core workplace protections - like holiday pay, maternity pay and equal pay for women and men - come from the European Union. For decades, EU laws have ensured decent working standards in the UK, shielding workers from exploitation and discrimination.

In its quest to complete Brexit, the government intends to rip these protections out of the UK law books entirely. The Retained EU Law Bill, described as a "bonfire of workers' rights", was introduced by Jacob Rees-Mogg on behalf of the ill-fated Truss government. It sets a time bomb beneath vital workplace regulations, alongside many other EU-derived laws.

The bill returns to the House of Commons on 18 January, for its report stage. If it continues unchecked, by 31 December this year the UK could lose over 4,000 pieces of EU legislation in one fell swoop.

UNISON members and the union's legal team are horrified at what the removal of these laws, and the principles of EU law, will mean for workers. Many legal improvements to workers' rights in the UK, including UNISON's recent Supreme Court victory that won new holiday rights for part-time workers, are reliant on the courts' interpretations of EU law, and could be lost.

Without the shield of EU law, workers in the UK will be exposed to an Americanised, hire-and-fire culture that makes work more insecure and dangerous. The government's decision to deliberately smash up decades of settled legal principles and case law will leave UK workers in an employment law wasteland

Quote: lofthouse @ 19th June 2023, 1:48 PM

Nah he's absolutely spot on there

Fact

Many core workplace protections...

Saying "fact" and then following it with someone else's opinion piece isn't exactly sporting.

So was the "Jingle and Mingle" Christmas party one of the parties Boris told the House never actually happened?

Whilst all us proles and hoi polloi were all put in lock down that Christmas

They carried on 'mingling' back at HQ

Worra bunch of absolute tossers

Quote: lofthouse @ 18th June 2023, 12:34 PM

Shit indeed

"Brexit: Poll suggests just 9% of Britons think decision to leave European Union more of a success than failure"

That sentence doesn't make any grammatical sense. It's highly ambigous.

WTF was it meant to say?

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 19th June 2023, 1:18 PM

Sounds like one of those so-called "conspiracy theories" you're usually dismissive of. The difference being, of course, you believe this one.

Weeeell...many people made it fairly clear they found certain bits of "red tape" a burden on businesses.
Maternity leave was mentioned, the working hours directive - Rees-Mogg certainly said we could lower standards on poultry keeping, among other things.
It's why Corbyn let the working people of this country down terribly (because he was quietly anti-EU) by not explaining some of the safeguards enshrined in EU law that were at risk.
And why the Brexiteers want to have a 'bonfire of EU laws' without anyone paying too much attention to what exactly it is that is going up in smoke.

Harriet Harman offered to step down from the partygate committee if her being on it could be misconstrued as a conflict of interest

She asked the government if she should remove herself from it and the government told her not to

Because she has some standards

Boris shouldn't hold people who have been respected parliamentarians for years and years - by HIS piss poor standards

If he had a shred of honour he would apologise to her for his disgusting, disrespectful insinuations

What? A Boris post. Ever thought of treatment for your out-of-control obsession?

Quote: lofthouse @ 17th June 2023, 2:08 PM

https://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/protesters-call-for-inquiry-into-battle-of-orgreave-b1088490.html

About bloody time

Absolutely disgusting incident

Yes! Bloody Scargill!

I went to see him talk (more out of interest as it was near)
He was a brilliant orator, he had the packed crowd eating out of his hands.
And I had a striking pit electrician work with me during the strike.
He told me unbelievable stories about the conditions down the pit.

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