Employers didn't need to get that creative about getting round the 40 hours thing, they just needed to ask job applicants to sign a waiver saying that they were willing to work more than 40 hours a week, and that's just what many did.
'David Davis in particular had this very crude 1980s approach to negotiation. I know David quite well, I knew him before I went into politics – David’s backstory is that he was the trouble-shooter for Tate & Lyle. When there was a problem, they sent David Davis. Shut down a refinery, fire a load of people, get rid of the troublemakers: the bare-knuckle fighter. That’s how he liked to see himself. David Davis’ approach to negotiation is you slap it on the table, you lean across, and you eyeball them. If they don’t give way immediately, you say, ‘I’ll see you round the back.’ That was always his view on this. ‘We’ve got the money, they want our money, so we wave a cheque at them then we stick it in our back pocket and we say, ‘Right, show us what you’ve got’. In the end, they’ll want our money. They’ll want access to our market. How long is this going to take, 15 minutes? Give me 15 minutes in a room with these people. I’ll sort them out.’ That was his view of the world, and it was widely shared among the Brexiteers.'
I have made nothing of the sort clear. I just find it remarkable that you only see brexit through the prism of being a muso/DJ.
I was asked many times, I refused and yes I appreciate I was in a privileged position and many people would find it harder to do than I did. The problem was never the EU legislation it was UK governments that were less than enthusiatic about enforcing it.
So nothing concrete then. Just 'I feel better now'?
That's a huge leap, just because someone offers up their first hand experience doesn't automatically infer that's their only way of seeing it.
A united Ireland can happen out of this mess.
No it’s consistent throughout his posts. What about the musos and BTW you are all bigots and stupid.
A united ireland - on this basis - will see the EU putting people out of work left right and centre, imposing wage-destroying policies, attacking every single thing the working class has won.
Well maybe they will reconsider ongoing membership.
Not a chance in hell.
That post made me laugh a little bit but seriously, that’s it? That’s the only attempt at an answer that anyone’s going to do?
With regard to the 40 hour rule specifically, the UK gov agreed an opt out for that particular piece of legislation, so it was perfectly legal for an employer to ask/effectively demand that potential employees signed the waiver.
That is concrete. Whatever you place the emphasis of “important” on is an ideological construction. Your preference for what is important means that there are no concrete benefits from your perspective but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist for others. What is more concrete than how you relate to the world? Do you not feel hurt in a concrete way from being severed from Europe? You certainly give every indication that this is a concrete injury to your sense of place.
I already posted a paper that identified a proportion of the population as being characterised by their representation of Europe as being a worrying cultural force undermining their sense of identity. Again, just because this is nonsense from your own ideological perspective, doesn’t mean that also applies to those who think differently.
Right. Just as you felt good about being in the EU despite the hurt of others who hated it (and who struggled in material ways as a result of it, unless you deny a single such person existed).
We’ve only had a month, what else did you expect?That post made me laugh a little bit but seriously, that’s it? That’s the only attempt at an answer that anyone’s going to do?
Yes to both parts of that question.
No, it could have been approved just the same. But being involved in the EU procurement program would have had consequences.
You're confusing facts with truths.
You’re begging the question
