A powwow on the failings of BJ's Brexit

The EU never promised an economy to anyone.
It facilitated national economic development by securing various beneficiary trade deals with over 80 countries, and the UK was quick to roll them over.
What each member nation did within under the terms of the deal was entirely up to them.
If the UK didn't benefit from them and others did, it wasn't because of the deals. It was because of UK management, internal systems, backscratchiing and taxation, all under sovereign control.

The EU is there to allow greater access to global trade, improve the quality of imports and exports, maintain workers rights and unite to protect the environment over an important part of the globe.

The UK has signed three trade treaties, amounting to .08% of its GDP and likely to do great damage to UK farming.
It is seriously considering trading with the CPTPP, which has very flexible quality control. As for workers rights, the current Brexit government is ignoring state employees' strikes, and discussing plans to reduce their right to strike, and finally I see no control over a new coal mine or poouring raw sewage into rivers and beaches. The only attempt to regulate the environment is extensions to EU requirements and Sadiq Khan's wet dream of ridding London of traffic.

So what has Brexit done for the UK that the UK couldn't have done as a member other than already reducing standards of living?

Well, UK bus drivers won't be forced to work 12 consecutive days without a day off, unlike ze Commission's proposals. Workers rights in the UK are by and large equal to or better than the EU's - which meant more EU nationals living and working

in the UK. Brexit has already improved that by stopping the entitlement of cheap labour snagging jobs wherever they could. People are now able to strike again and force better paid conditions this was hardly the case when they knew cheap

labour could undercut them so they couldn't afford to strike as they had no bargaining power.

And BTW, the UK had no other option to roll over those deals because the EU cynically banned the UK from entering trade talks with other nations until it finally departed that burdensome, meddling, rancid bloc.

in fact it was the EU who restricted the number of hours one could work without a break and introduced the Tachograph.


"All relevant vehicles manufactured in the EU since 1 May 2006 must be fitted with digital tachograph heads."
WIKI

horseshit - it was Barbara Castles 1968 Transport Act that introduced tachographs into the UK. They were made mandatory in the UK in 1982 - the EU didn't make them mandatory across the community until 1986.





Ain't that the truth...

They act as though it will solve Britain's domestic issues in an instant.

After the GFC in 2008, the UK still lagged in returning to pre-GFC levels in 2013 and the UK was a fully paid up member of the famed Single Market. Lot of good that did the UK economy. pah!

Returning back to that status quo will probably only ensure one thing, no strikes for better pay because all the cheap labour will come flooding back in pushing wages down again. 

So you missed the word DIGITAL.
As in the latest version of the control of drivers hours.


Next time you pretend to be clever, read properly.

I did read properly - you said that and i quote: "it was the EU who restricted the number of hours one could work without a break and introduced the Tachograph".

So as well as knowing nothing about tachographs apart from what you read on wikipedia you also dont know what you actually wrote yourself..


Anyway digital ones were not available in 1968 - if they were then the UK would still have introduced them before the EU.