The EU doesn't protect workers' rights - it has destroyed them

[muriel_volestrangler]

44. It is an immigrant issue: that's what the polls all show was the Leave voters' main concern

Thinking it would be nicer to see it as a struggle of an independent, worker-friendly country against a neoliberal international organisation may sound romantic, but it ignores the reality of what is likely to happen in the UK in the next few years. Hardly anyone in the UK talks about 'neoliberals'; if those who voted Leave were to characterise the EU as anything, it would be a bureaucracy with too many regulations. And, as has been shown, what they most object to is the unlimited movement of labour within the EU.

The MP who authored the first excerpt in the OP has to say "oh, it's OK, Labour can commit to keeping the worker protections the EU provides, and the human rights guarantees it provides, and then we'll win and everything will be brilliant", but Labour won't actually get into power before 2020 at the earliest, and neither issue is a vote winner (in fact, the right wing media has stirred up their more vindictive readers so much that campaigning for human rights can be a vote loser at the moment).

Leaving the EU now gives the anti-EU Tories the ability to handle all the negotiations and what we keep from our time in the EU. They're going to design things for less regulation, less protection for workers, and fewer human rights.