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EU standards are a minimum, member states can deal with their own benefits and working rights.
So, in the EU, the UK can already improve rights of 0 hour contract workers, and other member states like France have much better employee rights.
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That's what I wrote. The argument is completely nonsensical. You can't criticise a film about how badly protected workers' rights are in an EU member state by saying we need the EU's protection of workers' rights.
Hence why, if we were to stay in the EU, I'd much rather have Labour MEPs than any others, who could actually push a case for the EU's baseline to be improved. I wouldn't trust Lib Dems or Change UK to look after working people.
tbc
The Remain campaign was appalling first time round, and there haven't been a lot of cogent positive arguments for the EU made in the mean time. Another campaign based around "It's economically disastrous and you're stupid if you disagree" just isn't going to work with people who already aren't doing brilliantly.
One thing that really pissed me off recently was reading Peter Bradshaw's review of Ken Loach's new film, about a delivery driver struggling on a zero hours contract.
He complained that it didn't mention Brexit or the fact that the EU has protected workers' rights. Has he forgotten that we are still in the EU, and that workers' rights are already very poorly protected? It could get even worse if we left - but it could also get much better either way.