Cameron's not a lucky general, he's a blundering general. He never intended to hold the referendum, because he never expected to win the election. And so he was able to make all kinds of promises that he never intended to implement, both to appease his party's large lunatic fringe and to give him some things to give away in coalition negotiations with the Lib Dems rather than having to give away the stuff he actually wanted to do. And then he had the misfortune to win an outright victory and be saddled with actually having to do all of this crazy stuff (see also the British Bill of Rights).
Spain probably won't actually expel its UK residents, but it may well withdraw their EU rights to free health care, which will have much the same effect for many of them, since they can't afford private health insurance.
The UK has not opted out of the working time directive; it has allowed individual employees to opt out voluntarily of one part of it (but not all the other parts such as minimum break periods). But they can't be required to do so, and in fact most large companies have legal advice that it's too risky to let their employees opt out, and so most UK workers are protected by the directive, which has no equivalent in UK law.
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Date: 2016-06-02 10:30 am (UTC)Cameron's not a lucky general, he's a blundering general. He never intended to hold the referendum, because he never expected to win the election. And so he was able to make all kinds of promises that he never intended to implement, both to appease his party's large lunatic fringe and to give him some things to give away in coalition negotiations with the Lib Dems rather than having to give away the stuff he actually wanted to do. And then he had the misfortune to win an outright victory and be saddled with actually having to do all of this crazy stuff (see also the British Bill of Rights).
Spain probably won't actually expel its UK residents, but it may well withdraw their EU rights to free health care, which will have much the same effect for many of them, since they can't afford private health insurance.
The UK has not opted out of the working time directive; it has allowed individual employees to opt out voluntarily of one part of it (but not all the other parts such as minimum break periods). But they can't be required to do so, and in fact most large companies have legal advice that it's too risky to let their employees opt out, and so most UK workers are protected by the directive, which has no equivalent in UK law.