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A thank you to Brexiteers.

A good article worth a read.

Byrne’s colleague Labour MP Ben Bradshaw was among the first British politicians to raise questions about possible Russian interference in the UK’s democratic processes.

“I was the first MP, in December 2016, to raise in Parliament the issue of possible criminal interference in the Brexit referendum”, Bradshaw tells Byline Times.


 
At the one public meeting about the the referendum that
I went to,( Ruskin House), it was a representative of the RMT that argued for the leave position.
 
The P&O sackings wouldn't have been allowed under EU law. Another victory for the workers Smokeandsteam
Glad you’ve raised this as one of your number raised the same issue on the P&O thread and then vanished. So, I’ll ask you what I asked him. What relevant laws existed in Britain before Brexit that do not now? When were these laws ‘deregulated’? How would they have prevented what P&O have done? What EU law are you referring to specifically?

Also, what P&O have done is - in my view - unlawful. Reading the guardian this morning it seems lawyers agree that the dismissals are likely to be automatically unfair, that the failure to consult was illegal as was the failure to notify the Government.
 
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It’s not often I agree with Aaron Bastani but he’s half right here. Where I disagree with him is his suggestion that those engaged in these practices- gleefully commentating on people losing their jobs and lying as to the reasons why they are - could be part of any movement of progressive politics…



 
This is just really shit. French newspaper says the owners are going to replace the British staff with workers they’re bringing in from Columbia . Why haven’t they sacked the French staff as well?
 
This is just really shit. French newspaper says the owners are going to replace the British staff with workers they’re bringing in from Columbia . Why haven’t they sacked the French staff as well?
EU or French legislation no doubt which I believe has been covered on the p&o thread
 
It’s not often I agree with Aaron Bastani but he’s half right here. Where I disagree with him is his suggestion that those engaged in these practices- gleefully commentating on people losing their jobs and lying as to the reasons why they are - could be part of any movement of progressive politics…





I bet the effects of the war in Ukraine, whenever they become more readily apparent, will also get blamed on Brexit by these kinds of shitehawks. They seem to have no politics outside of that.
 
I’m not aware of employment law having changed yet post Brexit. That’s why I don’t understand how come the British staff are sacked but not the French.
 
I bet the effects of the war in Ukraine, whenever they become more readily apparent, will also get blamed on Brexit by these kinds of shitehawks. They seem to have no politics outside of that.

Their politics are shameful. No solidarity with the sacked workers, peddling the lie that some unidentified and now mysteriously repealed EU law would have prevented this, wilfully ignoring 40 plus years of history since Thatchers anti-TU laws. As I said on here during the debate about labour shortages their politics are leading in one direction: against the working class
 
I’m not aware of employment law having changed yet post Brexit. That’s why I don’t understand how come the British staff are sacked but not the French.

Maybe they just haven't got round to sacking the French staff yet, or maybe they think that it would be politically and economically less easy to get away with it in France (which has nothing to do with Brexit).

Either way, the way a few posters here have jumped on this with such glee is instructive

(not aimed at you bimble)
 
Maybe they just haven't got round to sacking the French staff yet, or maybe they think that it would be politically and economically less easy to get away with it in France (which has nothing to do with Brexit).

Either way, the way a few posters here have jumped on this with such glee is instructive

(not aimed at you bimble)
Def politically more difficult in France because here everyone knows it'll be froth for two weeks if that then complaisance from our nefandous government
 
I agree with this writer that it's time to bring in labour laws that will do what a lot of people thought Brexit was going to do.

Leaving the European Union, Brexiteers on both the right and left argued, would mean an end to importing low-cost European labour that “undercut” British workers. But the P&O mass lay-off exposes this argument as a red herring. The problem was not freedom of movement, but a loosely regulated labour market and poorly enforced labour laws, particularly relating to agency work and bogus self-employment.

 
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