Tag: Politics

Dear Editor

In my many letters over many years I have always highlighted social injustices imposed by our own politicians against working people, and urged the need for ordinary people to work together in resisting further attacks.

We have helped, and have been helped, bu all people in the European Union in passing laws:

• A maximum 48 hours working week
• A minimum break at rest from work between shifts
• Four weeks paid annual leave
• Paternity Leave
• Health & Safety at Work rules
• Equal pay for men and women
• Making racial and disability discrimination illegal
• Clean water supplies and pollution controls
• The right to join a trade union or association
• And many other benefits

All of these laws were minimum requirements, but could be improved on by individual nations’ own parliaments. Bear in mind it was ALL the member states of the EU who cooperated and agreed these regulations, covering approximately 500 million people.

The main threat posed by those who advocate leaving the EU is to do away with all these laws on social justice and replace them with their own legislation. Why?

Two questions immediately arise:

First, why not improve the existing laws if their intention is to pass better laws – this can be done by any nation in the EU.

And second: Why did they not do it years ago?

When the world is crying out for more cooperation to tackle pressing problems of unemployment, climate change, energy supplies, water and food provision, the depletion of natural resources, those people who want to leave the EU represent the most backward step the UK could take. WHY? And WHO are they?

A. Delahoy

Silverknowes Gardens