re: [Update] The UK votes to leave the EU
No one is going to take a hatchet to workers right in the event we vote to leave that's just another scare tactic, honestly listening to some you would be mistaken for thinking the UK never did anything positive till the EU rolled along and it's a complete load of rubbish. I think even the most dim witted politician has realised that the British public have a higher opinion of what flows through sewers right now then they do the political class and that dismantling workers rights might just well push a large group of people over the edge.
It's this revisionist history some on the remain side have spouted that has really angered me as this nations values of fairness and tolerance were in play long before the eec or the EU started doing anything. Granted it suits some to believe it and many younger voters might also fall for it but the reality is the fight for workers rights in this country was done many decades ago by very committed people who deserve better then to have their legacy taken by a bunch of spineless opportunistic grubs. Workers rights will not disappear if we vote leave just as the world will not end and countries will not fall, might take a few quid out of some wallets that won't really miss it but that will be the biggest extent.
A few of my brother's company's do most of their business in the EU and he's been having conference calls and meetings with clients and none of them seem overly concerned about brexit their general opinion is that if we do vote to leave things will continue much as before as that's what is in everyone's interests. To be honest most of my views of the economic argument have come from him and those he does business with mainly Germans and Italians and they certainly don't share the doom and gloom about brexit some think it might be the best thing for the EU.
That's why the scare mongering and fear campaign have angered me so much it's a small group promoting and backing those tactics and is not representative of everyone in certain fields that they claim.
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