Ken Loach

[William Treseder]

The ones that risk life & limb are being suckered in by unscrupulous bastards to work in slave like conditions, they’re unregistered, completely off the radar & working for a pittance & living in squalor I’d imagine. Cheap labour & inexpensive facilities & conditions has always appealed to a fair percentage of employers and seems to be quite widespread under Tory rule. With Brexit imminent, EU protection disappearing &, God forbid, another Tory government don’t rule out another influx of foreign labour with promises of streets paved with gold. I dread to think about the situation concerning workers rights, I hope I’m way off the mark but I foresee another ‘glut of labour, lack of work’ situation creeping in the unskilled, lower end of the scale jobs.

What’s the EU “protection” you talk about? We’re still in the EU, and all of the above you’ve described, is happening right now, and has been for yrs. Zero hr contracts have appeared whilst we’ve been in the EU. Where has workers protection from that been?