Brexit Penny Dropping?

[manxman1980]

2 hours ago, The Voice of Reason said:

Why not?

I’d have those children up those chimney’s before you could say Jack Robinson.

ECHR or no ECHR !

Exactly... 

[P.K.]

@The Voice of Reason

Don't you mean:

On 10/12/2024 at 10:07 PM, The Voice of Reason said:

I’d have those children up those chimney’s before you could say Jack Robinson Stephen Yaxley Lennon.

ECHR or no ECHR !

 

[woolley]

On 10/13/2024 at 12:14 AM, manxman1980 said:

Exactly... 

I think he might have been joking.

[manxman1980]

26 minutes ago, woolley said:

I think he might have been joking.

No shit Sherlock...

[Freggyragh]

On 10/12/2024 at 2:41 PM, The Voice of Reason said:

The UK Government and the UK Government alone, should be implementing and enforcing all legislation that governs UK businesses and citizens . Without outside  bodies, like the ECHR and previously the EU, being able to override such legislation.

Yes by all means look at what other countries have done, and,  if and where appropriate pass similar legislation. And adopt practices that have been proven to be beneficial elsewhere and reject those that haven’t.

But the UK should not have other countries telling it what to do when it comes to enacting its own domestic legislation. (Imagine the UK being able to stymie the law makers in the USA!)

That surely is something that most people would agree with. 
 

Nope. I disagree. We live in a global world where our own goods & services have to compete with those of other countries. We shouldn't be buying phones from companies in China that pay workers £1.20 an hour if we are also telling our own companies that they must pay £12.00 an hour. Same goes for environmental standards and human rights. We could of course make exceptions for friendly countries with lower costs of living, but these decisions shouldn't be left to businesses chasing profits, but politicians chasing votes informed by civil servants who know how friendly such countries really are. What you are proposing is an outright race to the bottom dictated by the profit margins of the super-rich with no regard to quality of life anywhere.