In article , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes
Go look up the facts
The UK has done more. The EU is mostly on the side of large corporations
- you know the ones that buy them expensive lunches and take them to exotic places for "conferences".
In article , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes
The working time directive has been one of the least effective of all EU directives and is best noted for its non-compliance. Most trade unionists in the UK were already covered by max 40 hour week. Plus as I have already pointed out the WTD is from Health and Safety not Social Chapter.
Don't be ridiculous. These phoney self-employed pay less tax. It is the courts who have made life difficult for HMRC in clamping down on them. See IR35
Until the courts decided otherwise.
No reason why they should give that most of them can't be obtained from anywhere else and even those that can be like aircraft engines would still have to come from outside the EU.
Nope.
But he gets to wear the fact that the UK imports far more US stuff than it exports to the US.
In article , whisky-dave writes
And wages and benefits are now improving as a result.
In article , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes
More of your ill informed rubbish. The majority of the new jobs are full time and well paid. You need to differentiate between the number of zero hours contracts issued and the number of people with at least one zero hours contract.
But better for your mental health than sitting on your arse on benefits. And lets not rule out those who actually want work on a casual basis - supply teachers, locums for example. A zero hours contract is the best way to enable a rapid response and minimal paperwork. The way to bring the Amazons and Sports Directs of this world into line IMO is to insist they pay benefits related to the actual hours worked not the contracted hours. There was a court decision along these lines regarding holiday pay a year or so back but the socialist have ignored it as it doesn't fit with their 19th century class warfare rhetoric.
Why are we not developing robot train drivers? Much simpler than autonomous cars I would have thought.
Don?t need any new trade agreement. The WTO is in fact by far the most comprehensive trade agreement the world has ever seen and all but the absolute dregs of the world like North Korea are signatories.
There is no mess. The WTO works fine.
In article , tim... writes
Referred to as "posting" You can plough through this if you wish - and come back and tell me if I've got the right one :-)
In article , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes
Don't you? We do. And now EU businesses are suddenly waking up to the reality of what Barnier is dragging them into.
How many times - you don't need a trade deal to trade.
Not what was suggested - but in effect that's what a trade deal does.
Those which we *sell* to the EU yes. Our import tariffs are just that -
*our* import tariffs.In article , John Angus writes
And as we have a net deficit who is going to suffer most so who should be looking for a trade deal?
Because the unions wont allow them.
Much simpler than
Yep, other countries have them and have had them for a long time now.
Yes. Unions should bid to get the franchise for a given industry. And have to bid for it again after 5 years. Franchise to be awarded based on what they have done to help the public.
Oy, you can't use the phrase "flounce out". That been copyrighted by Our Dave.
Sure, but there is an obvious incentive for Barnier to make it look as hard as possible to leave the EU to discourage anyone else who is considering doing that from doing that.
Hello Rod, I wonder where your close friend "Jock Green" has got to.
Bill Wright posts some interesting things but the OP for this thread is Martin not me.
Trouble is the US will resort to dirty tricks if they do not like the country we may want to trade with and threaten us with penalties to UK companies especially if they have a subsidiary in the US they can get at. And they will not be beyond engineering situations like that to benefit their own industry. And while we are in hock to them for almost all our air defence equipment and other military components we are no more independent from Washingtons influence than we were from Brussels, and we had a say at Brussels. France and Sweden have managed to retain the ability to not depend on the USA for modern military aircraft, Here we always jump in with the USA because of the illusion that because they speak English they are disposed to be friendly to us, it just makes it easier for them to shaft us.
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Quite. And working for the same employer at all times. Customers didn't come to him - they went to PP who then gave him the work.
It's nonsense? Anything May has put forward gets stamped on by RM and Boris etc. Who rather obviously don't want any deal which is possible.
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