[nomadking]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Sure it wasn't signed up to by the Blair government shortly after coming to power in 1997 and became law in 1998?

A quick Google points out that the UK was criticised and threatened with sanction for not implementing it fully but we were not compelled to implement it at all from what I can gather, voluntary choice by the government of the day.

My only real objection to this is that it's a government binding subsequent ones via the EU. Giving up the opt-out is, according to treaties, etc, irrevocable.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsVV3fpVNKI

Phil/Thunderf00t handing Sargon his hindmost throughout this. I rather like his style. The arguments Sargon is using are the same ones many on this side use.

I remembered the issue at the time.

After the 1993 Council Negotiations, when the Directive was agreed to after an 11-1 vote, UK Employment Secretary David Hunt said "It is a flagrant abuse of Community rules. It has been brought forward as such simply to allow majority voting – a ploy to smuggle through part of the Social Chapter by the back door. The UK strongly opposes any attempt to tell people that they can no longer work the hours they want