Thursday, April 21, 2005

Stephen Hughes MEP Goes Native

DAILY TELEGRAPH 21/4/05

Labour MEPs vote to end opt-out on working hours

Conservatives in the European Parliament last night denounced what they called Labour "duplicity" towards British business after Labour and foreign communists MEPs joined forces and voted for Britain to be stripped of its opt-out from the Working Tome Directive

In theory the Blair government has pledged to defend the opt-out, which allows 2 million workers to work the hours they choose, and ignore the European Union's mandatory 48-hour working week. The Labour MEP Stephen Hughes - the coordinator, or whip, on labour policy and social affairs for European Socialist members - defied the government position to lead his bloc in voting for a phasing out of the opt-out by 2010.

Philip Bushill-Matthews, the Tory employment spokesman in Europe, challenged the government to explain why it did not rein in Mr Hughes.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Mr Herron
it is so pleasing that a person of your standing is standing by the people.
In my view this Mr Hughes, and other MEP's are abusing the position given to him by the sitizens of this area.
It was my beliefe that our MEP's were put in place to protect better the life of the british people.
Clearly there is little evidence of that happening and I think all mep's for the North East should rethink their positions, I know I am having a big re-think at this time and I urge others to do the same

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