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Old 11-09-2017, 11:20   #15
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Re: Brexit discussion

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy View Post
Part of the irony here is that many of the workers rights that Labour are worrying about would be continued and confirmed by this bill. Curious that they would oppose it and lose those rights?

Of course this has nothing to do with that and is just a cycnical ploy to try and defeat the government and get a re-run of the election. Would anybody really trust Labour when they have proved to be even more duplicitous than the Lib-Dems in abandoning their promises, particularly to the young, that were fooled into voting for them the last time?
Any workers rights as a result of EU directives, eg Working Time directive, are already enshrined in UK law. No changes needed.

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The Working Time Regulations (1998) implement the European Working Time Directive into GB law.
Was anybody saying that there would be a loss of workers' rights, if Scotland had voted for independence and left the EU as well as the UK? Sounds like there definitely would have been an issue as they would have lost UK laws, but lack the ability(legal competence/standing) to pass their own versions.

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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
But that isn't their problem is it? Their problem is the amount of leeway the bill gives to the Government to pass/amend/scrap leglislation without so much as a trigger mechanism should Parliament object to any of those actions. There is generally an understanding that the Government needs some of this power given the amount they have to do but people should rightly be concerned about the power being abused.

Maybe Labour would still object if this bill were only concerned with confirming those rights but it's rather typically disingenuous to pretend it's that that they're objecting too in this massive bill.
So have any changes been suggested? NO. Nothing being abused at all.

As I've already highlighted with regards to the split up of Czechoslovakia, the procedure is standard and accepted practice in international law.
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