Perhaps because its those that benefit the many and not the few that they want to reverse, like the working time directive or the enhancements to maternity and paternity pay that the masses benefit from.
Same old tories - they either lie through their teeth (no VAT increase, no child benefit cuts etc etc) or just dont tell us what their true agenda is......
Never trust a tory!
I just answered a similar question and the principle stays the same. If you work 40 hours a week or 140 hours a week what has it to do with anyone bnut you and your family. People whinge in Britain about how many shops are taken over by Asians and othr immigrant workers. My local papershop opens at 6am and closes at midnight according to my math that is 18 hours a day. 7 days at 18 hours is 126 hours a week between him and his brother. 63 hours a week each. If they are prepared to graft then good luck to them. No one makes anyone work overtime.
It is not just the Conservatives, it is the British people who only want the parts of the EU that suits them, while they fully reject anything that doesn't.
The media and the anti-EU minority in the UK have caused this, they are always bitching about something or other in the EU.
It is their number one pet hate !
And it is they who are always stirring up anti European sentiment, the favourite line they are constantly using is how "we" are losing our sovereignty.
They even insinuate that France and Germany are still trying to take us over by using the EU, playing on the worn out "old enemy" propaganda.
What utter scaremongering Bullsh!t !
And who are these people ?
The old establishment, the aristocracy who own half the media in the UK, together with an Australian owner of the largest media empire in the world, which is based in the USA !
Who's interests do these mega-wealthy people really have at heart ?
Judging by the scadalous behaviour of News International over the last decade, they don't appear to be interested in the welfare of British people, that is for sure ! And they are not the only ones !
As for Europe.
There are 26 other members in the EU, who have all agreed to give a little for the benefit of the community, they are all in the same boat and consequently lose a bit of sovereignty too.
But that does not mean the Poles are less Polish, or French people less French, or any other nationality less individual.
They still remain proud of their individual nationality, heritage and traditions.
But British people refuse to see this, they only think from a position of self-interest.
I guess very few of you remember how it was in the UK before we joined the "Common Market" ?
How Harold Macmillan and previous governments had to regularly devalue the Pound in order to remain competitive and how this always caused inflation !
Well that was when Britain was still a major exporting nation, but now we are an import based, financial hub economy ! Nearly 70 % of the British GDP is now made in the city of London.
You have based your whole economy on the one sector you trust the least, the bankers !
I really wonder if it is THEY who wish that Britain leaves the EU, so that they can continue their stranglehold of your economy ?
Are they the ones who are scared of EU regulations which may curb their excesses ?
If the UK leaves the EU, what is left of our manufacturing and industrial base will suffer enormously.
As soon as we leave, the value of the pound against other currencies will fall.
Because our products will once again face import taxes from our major customers in Europe.
In order to compensate for this we will have to re-introduce our own import taxes !
This will cause prices to rise in the UK because we import so much, and this will start off a new wave of inflation, which will further depress the value of the pound.
Interest rates will be forced upwards, as had happened before we joined Europe, and that will mean rocketing mortgage costs and far less money in the pockets of the general public.
Of course, this will slaughter UK consumer spending and decimate our internal trading.
Sounds like a downward spiral to me.
Or do you really believe you can go it alone now ?
Because before we joined Europe we couldn't, and that is a proven fact.
So..... Go ahead and have your vote.
But if you vote to opt out, there is NO coming back, ever !
Europe WILL resolve the Euro crisis, and the Euro will recover to become the world's most important currency.
And very slowly over the next 50 years, a Federal style Europe WILL happen, with ALL the members being autonomous sovereign nations. Power WILL be slowly dissolved towards a central european government, no matter how tasteless this idea is !
It is the only way forward in this modern world.
Together we stand, divided we fall, an old English saying, strangely enough.
Nobody is forced to work 12 hours.Every party wants what suits them from europe.I keep getting asked to do 12 hour shifts where i work and i just say no,of course i lose out in monetary terms but quality of life is more important.No party would ever dare to bring in a law that compelled workers to do 12 hour shifts and certainly the conservatives wouldn't look at how they had to backtrack on the pasty tax.Seems to me you are just peddling labour propaganda.
12 hours is alot. lol. niqqa I work 15 hours a day
they are anti european to a man, and if it suits big business then they adopt it.
To scrap the working hours directive will see workers been brought out of factories exhausted.
I work 12 hour shifts and it is too long.
I come home from work at 18.30 and have a bath, and get changed and have something to eat(quick food) and then watch a bit of tv and then it is bed and then back to work....
But where are the Liberals who are supposed to be pro european?