Current Affairs EU In or Out

In or Out

  • In

    Votes: 688 67.9%

  • Out

    Votes: 325 32.1%
  • Total voters
    1,013
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Old Blue 2 said:
It's beginning to look like a battle betwen London & the remaing Scottish votes, and the rest of the country.
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I think Leave have got it. The margins are bigger for them in higher vote turnout areas.

Amazing. An act of ridiculous self harm from a very insular-minded nation.
 
Tubey said:
I think Leave have got it. The margins are bigger for them in higher vote turnout areas.

Amazing. An act of ridiculous self harm from a very insular-minded nation.
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Well I would say it's more a case of two fingers up to the EU and their rule over our laws and court judgements. I for one don't want to be told what to do by Eurocrats who know jack-sh1t about this country, or care about it.
 
Brennan said:
The same Brussels who have pushed multiple workers rights you mean ? Give over mate.
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Don't take my word for it.

https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/42434/Six+myths+about+the+European+Union
Union leaders sometimes claim that the EU is the only thing standing between unscrupulous bosses and workers’ rights.

TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady claimed, “It’s the EU that guarantees workers paid holidays, parental leave and equal treatment of part-timers.”

In reality, it was the unions that O’Grady leads that won those rights.

Their struggles mean that some British workplace legislation, such as health and safety, is stronger than the EU demands.

The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 came out of a mass upsurge in union struggle that toppled Edward Heath’s Tory government.

It’s been under relentless Tory attack. But the EU’s “Better Regulation” agenda won’t give workers more protection. It makes clear that “suppressing unnecessary administrative burdens” is crucial for business.

That’s because the EU is no friend of workers’ rights—and that doesn’t only apply in countries such as Greece where it’s imposing brutal austerity.

It is based on “four freedoms” for bosses. The EU guarantees them the right to set up business, provide services, move capital and hire labour across its member states.

There was no real mention of “social rights” in the Treaty of Rome of 1957 that founded the EU. It only began adopting some weak measures to sugar the pill.

EU “directives” have little impact on workers’ terms and conditions, and do not protect union rights. Unfair dismissal rights and the minimum wage have nothing to do with the EU.

If workers’ rights clash with the “four freedoms”, the EU always comes down on the bosses’ side.

In 2007 Finnish ferry company Viking tried to operate from neighbouring Estonia to get around a union agreement. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in the bosses’ favour, saying that workers taking action could restrict Viking’s “right” to relocate.

British Airways bosses used the ruling to stop the Balpa pilots’ union striking against plans to set up a subsidiary with worse terms and conditions.

Our rights are under attack from the Tories and the EU. Only workers’ struggles will defend them.
 
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