Re: An old trick in the US
The hard-right-wingers who were the main proponents of Brexit were open at the time (*) about wanting to use it as an excuse to strip away various protections and workers' rights (**).
The EU provides minimum standards on those, and while the UK may had legislation that met or exceeded that they weren't put in place by the current regime dominated by Brexiteers (and helped into power by their victory on that count).
*Those* are the people who want to get rid of them, and leaving the EU makes it easier for them to do so.
This is *exactly* the sort of thing that people like myself predicted and feared with Brexit, as it was obvious the EU had been protecting UK citizens from the worst tendencies of the government for a long time before that. I'm not remotely surprised that the present government is now moving hard in exactly that direction.
(*) For those paying attention to the reality of the situation and what they were actually voting for rather than the "unicorns and rainbows" propaganda
(**) As part of a more general move towards turning the UK into the low-rent, low-tax, laissez-faire, race-to-the-bottom economy. FFS, it says something that even the *president of the United States* (where even the "left" is extremely pro-free-market by anyone else's standards) is criticising Truss for her dogmatic adherence to long-discredited "trickle down" economics.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
