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I realise it’s hard for you to understand anything without refracting it through the prism of the defeat of project remain. And, no doubt if this EU directive had been dumped you’d have been among the first to be complaining about it.

But, the main point here is the neo-feudal order that’s what left of the organised working class is confronted by after 45 years of consistent anti-working class and anti-trade union activity.
Bollocks is it neo-feudal. It's capitalism that km would have recognised in the c19. Neo-feudal my arse
 
I assume that Labour are saying that they would repeal the problematic EU directive in order to strengthen workers rights?

Not to get into the benefits of Brexit here, but if it's true that this was enabled by EU law then it follows that the government should now be able to change this if they so wanted.
 
I assume that Labour are saying that they would repeal the problematic EU directive in order to strengthen workers rights?

Not to get into the benefits of Brexit here, but if it's true that this was enabled by EU law then it follows that the government should now be able to change this if they so wanted.
A competent government, yes. One that knew what it was doing.
 
workers right being eroded by the Tory party for a few decades
and then after the glourious brexit sold as taking back control

they still blame the eu

you think these guys did not give a shite about the working classes
 
I assume that Labour are saying that they would repeal the problematic EU directive in order to strengthen workers rights?

Not to get into the benefits of Brexit here, but if it's true that this was enabled by EU law then it follows that the government should now be able to change this if they so wanted.
Even if they now change it, it won't make any difference to the workers sacked by P&O.

And for what it's worth, I don't expect either the current government or a hypothetical future Starmer-led Labour government will be rushing to change the law to give workers greater protection.
 
A competent government, yes. One that knew what it was doing.
Oh, I think they know what they're doing, hence the 'if they so wanted'. Looks like an open goal for some kind of opposition here - 'ok, P&O can't be challenged due to an EU directive that we still have on the statute books, will the government change that now that they have the power to do so?'

Trouble is of course, the opposition doesn't appear to know what they're doing either. :facepalm:
 
Even if they now change it, it won't make any difference to the workers sacked by P&O.

And for what it's worth, I don't expect either the current government or a hypothetical future Starmer-led Labour government will be rushing to change the law to give workers greater protection.
Indeed, sad but true. :(
 
Oh, I think they know what they're doing, hence the 'if they so wanted'. Looks like an open goal for some kind of opposition here - 'ok, P&O can't be challenged due to an EU directive that we still have on the statute books, will the government change that now that they have the power to do so?'

Trouble is of course, the opposition doesn't appear to know what they're doing either. :facepalm:
The opposition are in favour of what the government are doing, they just want to do it more efficiently
 
I realise it’s hard for you to understand anything without refracting it through the prism of the defeat of project remain. And, no doubt if this EU directive had been dumped you’d have been among the first to be complaining about it.
Just as a reminder, it was you who introduced the EU element to this morning's discussion.

But do you actually understand the reasons this extra clause was added? It seems to be something to do with something in an EU directive, but as far as I can see it's an amendment to UK legislation made by the UK government. Can you clarify? For example, does the EU directive require that member state governments remove the need to notify their own authorities or does it just add the need to notify in the flag country?
 
Well, the only action that I can take will be to boycott P&O.
Not that my individual protest will make even a tiny ripple, but on principle, I'll still make it.

I hope the MCA keep impounding the ferries to take them to task over staff competencies etc for as long as it must be.
 
To be fair brexit has hardly played itself out, and the lexit vote was, I think, for the opportunity for things to change in a positive way, not that things would definitely roll in a positive way. Maybe in five or ten years we'll see how brexit worked out in terms of creating that space - too soon to say now
True, but the 'choice' offered by the tory referendum did not include anything other than neoliberalism.
 
workers right being eroded by the Tory party for a few decades
and then after the glourious brexit sold as taking back control

they still blame the eu

you think these guys did not give a shite about the working classes
IIRC there was an interregnum of some 13 years when there was a Labour government, ample time to change labour and union legislation, yet they chose not to? A bit hypocritical really to blame only the Conservatives for eroding workers' rights.
 
Was just about to post that. She also thought that her ex husband, who carried out several sexual assaults, only 'behaved badly' and got an excessive sentence. Wiki:
Local activists not too long ago were saying that they thought her and Charlie were still living together at their place in St. Margarets Bay (as it still wasn't on the market). As for the money, she's also got a second job related to dodgy housing builds in the Whitfield area of Dover and the Aylesham area near Canterbury. I've written a couple of articles about her.
 
So, the Government are unable to prosecute P&O ferries due to an EU Directive (bitterly ironic, given earlier attempts by Remain cranks to claim Brexit was to blame for the actions of P&O bosses) that removes the need for shipping companies to notify the Secretary of State and merely requires them to notify the country where the vessel is registered (which P&O didn’t bother doing either but I can’t see Bermuda being all that bothered).

P&O have already told Shapps that they’ll be ignoring his demand for reinstatement:


Workers face a choice of either acquiescing to the enhanced redundancy package, and thereby signing away their legal rights to go to ET, or risking it all at an ET.

This is the neo-feudal employment framework that Thatcher always longed for now fully visible. Every route to access to justice for workers closed off or too expensive to pursue.


So Chris Grayling has been writing EU directives on the sly, has he? Cheeky...

 
IIRC there was an interregnum of some 13 years when there was a Labour government, ample time to change labour and union legislation, yet they chose not to? A bit hypocritical really to blame only the Conservatives for eroding workers' rights.
Not often I agree with you Sasaferrato but you are quite right here. Also, can't remember who said it, but Thatcher's greatest success was none other than Tony Blair. But then, as brogdale points out, it's been uninterupted neoliberalism for decades.

Labour is a thoroughly anti-working class organisation, and becoming ever more so by the minute.
 
Not often I agree with you Sasaferrato but you are quite right here. Also, can't remember who said it, but Thatcher's greatest success was none other than Tony Blair. But then, as brogdale points out, it's been uninterupted neoliberalism for decades.

Labour is a thoroughly anti-working class organisation, and becoming ever more so by the minute.
t'was the woman herself wot said it...

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Interview with the Dutch dockers' union:

RMT out in Portsmouth tomorrow:
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As well as Cairnryan on the 8th:
 
Well, the only action that I can take will be to boycott P&O.
Not that my individual protest will make even a tiny ripple, but on principle, I'll still make it.

I hope the MCA keep impounding the ferries to take them to task over staff competencies etc for as long as it must be.
How long, I wonder, before the Government decides to cut funding to the MCA to make it more difficult for them to take such actions? :hmm:
 
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