At a GE we are consulted as to whether we would like to keep or sling out the party that scrapped a particular set of rights. We are not being consulted on the act of getting rid of the vote. Where was our referendum on replacing the protected Human Rights act with The British Bill of Rights...
You are right that the Blair labour government introduced many family friendly laws and some of these exceed the EU requirements, which is great. The EU did have a LOT to do with them. The UK's framework for these advances and rights was heavily influenced by the EU's. However, the most...