27-02-21, 01:58 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2020
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 373
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Re: Gripe of the day - What is yours?
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Originally Posted by Craig380
What we 'gain' by leaving is uncoupling the UK from EU employment and worker protection laws - which gives staff based in the UK fewer benefits and rights than EU counterparts, making them much easier to fire.
It also uncouples the UK from EU anti-tax avoidance laws, which means we can invite much more dubious business from the global 'grey' economy. Rishi Sunak can set up his 'freeports' that he is so keen on, allowing all sorts of illicit, underhand but lightly-taxed trade via the UK.
It's ultra-Conservatism in action: the lightest-touch regulation of the financial sector, eroding of workers' rights, rolling back the state and creating monopolies for the likes of Serco.
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sarcasm at its best.
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