More Scaremongering

The Indy publishes more risible bullshit designed to scare the bejesus out of the easily led and simple of mind.

Imagine a country in which there is:

– No statutory right to paid holiday

– No legal limit on the number of hours employees can be required to work 

– No right to a daily rest period

– No laws to prevent employers discriminating against workers who are disabled or who have particular religious beliefs

– No right for employees to take time off work to look after a sick child.

This was the UK before the New Labour government was elected in 1997. Since then a substantial number of employment rights have been introduced – most of which have their roots in EU legislation.

Sigh… We did not join the EU in 1997 and we were not some third-world shithole before then, either – and guess what, we were taking breaks during the day and getting a couple of  weeks paid leave. Employers realise full well that the world of employment is a market and if they treat their employees like shit, then someone else will nab them. Someone who offers better terms and conditions.

But, does this moron seriously believe that a UK government will engage in a massive repeal act following a successful Brexit vote? Seriously? The last one we were promised never materialised, did it? And, considering that statutory paid leave in this country is higher than other EU countries – why is the government not reducing it already, if that is what they plan on doing?

So, in reality, another plague of locusts story, written by an idiot. The comments  below the piece suggest that it is being treated with the contempt it so richly deserves.

9 Comments

  1. I really wasn’t holding out a lot of hope of an exit vote being carried but now I’m not so sure. Certainly this kind of ridiculous nonsense must be helping the out cause.

  2. What is it about Sheffield University that attracts intellectually challenged lefties such as Heyes? The MUP anti-alcohol loonies also hail from that parish.

    My wife who is a nurse had better work breaks under Thatcher than she eventually did under Blair. Front line nurses have been asked to make sacrifices to cover the costs of jobs for the politically correct but useless boys and girls who infest our public services in non-jobs.

  3. Imagine a country where:
    Overt homosexuals are thrown off buildings (though buggery of young boys is acceptable);
    Women are not allowed to practice the skills they learned through hard work and study (but are required to marry the brothers or cousins of their husbands);
    Men are taught (brainwashed) from an early age that females are merely chattels who may be sexually abused, tortured, or raped to alleviate the male frustrations;
    Men are allowed to have sex with a sheep, lamb, or goat, if there are no available women to rape, or young boys to bugger, as long as the animal is killed immediately afterwards as it is unclean (and though it may not be cooked and eaten in that village may be sold to another village to be eaten).
    Require all post pubescent females to be completely covered up to prevent men being unable to control their sexual urges;
    Accept that pre-pubescent females may be required to have sex with males many times their elder.
    That, my friends, will be the EU in 10 years time.

    • Nicely put, old lad – but I don’t imagine the Beeb, Indy or Grauniad will be publishing that.

  4. It’s a killer argument isn’t it, that we aren’t able to impose rules on ourselves without the help of those ‘continentals’.

    Caroline Lucas has another brilliant argument: The wicked Cameron is in favour of the trade deal with the USA but three million ‘in Europe’ have signed a petition against it so we should remain allied to them, (what about the other 500 million?). It hasn’t dawned on her that it is her lovely EU that is negotiating the deal that she opposes!

  5. The trouble is that I met my first ‘stay’ voter this morning – and she hadn’t got a clue. However she’ll be voting to stay in because of scaremongering shite just like this…

  6. The Factories Act 1847 (The Ten Hours Bill) restricted the working day to ten hours.

    In a free, competitive market terms and conditions are arrived at by mutual consent of both parties engaged in voluntary exchange.

    So in the UK the standard used to be 40 hours, plus overtime as agreed.

    Ironically, the big battle in Francevis to increase maximum working hours because, guess what, 35 hours is bad for the French economy.

  7. Most people who actually worked for a living, actually liked a bit of overtime. It paid for some extras during the statuary holiday. You may notice that the rules made by these useless toads are so drafted, that they never apply to them.

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