EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

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starfish&coffee in reply to @Fintan

They want to do away with regulation on the environment, worker and human rights and have access to a free market within Europe and the rest of the world. All the advantages with none of the rules. That's the Norway solution some tories are now trying to sell. It's the neo-liberal dream.

This does in no way whatsoever describe the situation in Norway. I reckon most people you ask would say Norway is doing OK in the worker rights department.
EU rules do apply in Norway, that's the condition for access to the single market. Anything else would be unfair competition.

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mespilus in reply to @starfish&coffee

The Tory rightwing/brexitter/free marketeers have always had their knickers in a twist over the Working Time Directive, which as Francis O'Grady pointed out, first gave 2million UK prt-time workers holiday pay.
'Less regulation/less red tape' is their shorthand for repealing the WTD.
The pre-Article 50/'informal negotiations' will be all about weaselling out of the WTD,
at a minimum.

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