Oh, remember my local Tory MP said Britain needs to start reversing Brexit by (re)joining the EEA? He’a just got kicked out of the party conveniently while he’d been sent to visit the president of Moldova.
UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss
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I wonder how that stacks up to membership of the other parties. I could see the UK just being full of officially-nonpartisan people. In the US, you have to belong to a party to vote in most states' primaries (Ohio being one of the exceptions), so there's incentive to sign up just to participate in the democratic process.
IIRC, the Labour Party has more registered members, but that’s more to do with Labour membership being given to people who join affiliated trade unions.
Looks like the UK will be next in line to ban abortion.
Brexiteers actually told us that Brexit would only stop people coming in, and wouldn’t affect British people going out.
You know things are bad for Brexit when the BBC News admits there’s a problem.
I'm reminded of what I thought at the time to be just a hyperbole meme - that English vacationers in Spain were complaining that everyone was speaking Spanish.
Pretty sure those were the British retirees.
Retirees and working-age tourists both do that – it’s basically the default British behaviour when travelling to, or living in, non-English speaking countries.
Both Tory leadership contenders have said that they want to ban unions from striking. Not sure how I feel about that, seeing as trade unions all wanted Brexit, which inevitably was going to lead to the Tories scrapping our employment rights (most of which derived from EU social legislation)…
As a (German) union member, I wholeheartedly disagree. I'd argue that you simply have shitty unions.
Still, unions are not just a "necessary evil". They're necessary, and at least here in Germany, they offer additional benefits for their members, with one of the most important ones being legal protection (which is covered by the standard membership fee).
Still, unions are not just a "necessary evil". They're necessary, and at least here in Germany, they offer additional benefits for their members, with one of the most important ones being legal protection (which is covered by the standard membership fee).
I think Pocket is coming at things more in the “a government could guarantee Union type benefits as a matter of law” rather than it falling to people in the industry to unionize for.
Which I don’t think is necessarily wrong but I think you’d lose a lot of stuff in a one size fits all thing like that,
Which I don’t think is necessarily wrong but I think you’d lose a lot of stuff in a one size fits all thing like that,
North american unions USED to be very good, and very needed. Between years of corruption, fat living and the endless propaganda from the rich: unions are generally viewed at large as either bad for workers, or generally useless. It IS changing again, and attitudes are swinging back the other way, but it's hard to live through a poison pill.
Eh, I'd argue the same applies in Germany.
Unions are ridiculously better in Germany by all accounts, in terms of what they offer as benefits of membership and being better organised…