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Simple solution for anyone who does not want to be stuck with US chicken, is to stick to Organically reared chicken. Organic cannot be chlorine washed or reared in cramped stinking cages.

Still don't want their cheap inhumanely produced fowls. Would rather actively support British Farmers, rather than throw them to the wolves of a US trade deal.

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Then buy British. Problem solved.

The cheaper US chicken would be greatly appreciated by those who find it difficult to get by.

So everyone should be happy.

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Are you seriously telling us that the UK is not able to pass legislation? Leaving the EU does not in itself remove it, nor does it mean we can't change it in the future.

We can do what is best for this country after Brexit, basically.

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More nonsense. I feel so sorry for all those sick Americans.

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Not biting on your vegan menu, Mr K. Meat all the way for me. Always.

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That is simplistic in the extreme! There will still be many leavers who vote for the Conservatives or Labour. Both are mandated to leave the EU.

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You know fine well what I mean you just don't want to answer it properly. The working time directive is a positive to come from the EU. Nothing to do with us being able to pass legislation or not.

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Glad that clears that up then as your post was ambiguous.

If the GB wants to have legislation like this, Parliament is capable of passing it. Nothing magical about the EU.

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Unless, of course, you’re Farage...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics...endum-36306681

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No it wasn't :confused:

Mick said -

"they do not provide any benefit to our country either."

I said -

"So the working time directive isn't a benefit?"

Mick said -

"we don't need to remain a member of the EU to keep"

I said -

"If we weren't part of the EU, we might have never had it to begin with."

You said -

"Ridiculous question, Mythica. We are just as capable of enacting laws that are good for us."

I said -

"If we are just as capable then why wasn't it already a law?"

You said -

"Are you seriously telling us that the UK is not able to pass legislation? Leaving the EU does not in itself remove it, nor does it mean we can't change it in the future."

I said -

"The working time directive is a positive to come from the EU. Nothing to do with us being able to pass legislation or not."

There is nothing ambiguous about that.

I never said parliament couldn't pass such a law. I said the working time directive was a benefit to come from the EU as Mick said the EU had no benefits. I asked a question that if we were capable then why wasn't it already a law which in itself is a good question as something like the working time directive is a valuable piece of law for workers. Something which we MIGHT not have if it wasn't for the EU.

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Truly we have plumbed new depths of pedantry.

It’s pretty obvious - to me at least - what Mick’s point was. If we are capable of making our own laws, and prioritising which pieces of legislation are more important, and electing governments on manifestos designed to test what the public thinks is most important, then an organisation is not offering us a benefit by seeking to replicate that capability, least of all when that organisation is trying to write legislation that simultaneously fits the social and legal situations of 28 different countries.

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I disagree. Mick said "
they do not provide any benefit to our country either."

Whether or not we can make our own laws or not doesn't take away the working time directive which came from EU laws and is a benefit to millions of people in the UK.

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Some people see things as black and white. All good or all bad, it isn't that simple. To say the EU don't provide any benefit is ludicrous. Farmers subsidiies, structure funds for deprived regions, workers rights, the list is long. As with many things people will realise until it's gone. Any saving you can bet won't be as fairly distributed. I predict the rich will get richer and everyone else poorer, hence the millionaires and affluent politicians desperate for Brexit.

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:bigcry:

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As I said: pedantry.

It is as much benefit as me owning two iPads.. No matter how much intrinsic value there is in the thing, its value to me is severely curtailed by the fact that I have one already.

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Vegetarian OB, now Vegans are irritating I must admit ;)

p.s. I really would vary your diet a bit !

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How is it pedantry when someone says the EU provides no benefits to then point out a benefit that the EU brought to the UK?

Your analogy would work if the working time directive already existed as it does now before the EU law was brought in, but it didn't so it doesn't work.

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'Pedantry' a valid point, which I wish to ignore. ©Oxford English Dictionary.

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It’s the legislative process I’m talking about. We have a functioning one already. I’m not surprised the EU Parliament is more valued elsewhere; every other country in the EU, with only a very few exceptions, has been ruled by dictatorship within living memory.

The point about the WTD is a logical extension of that point. No matter how much intrinsic value it has, it is nothing we couldn’t have done ourselves. Neither does the fact we didn’t do it prove anything; in many cases these things are discussed for years in Brussels before finally being agreed and there is therefore no incentive for the British government to press ahead with its own domestic legislation.