I was aghast to see Johnson talking in Greenwich yesterday :
"I dispel the absurd caricature of Britain as a nation bent on the slash and burn of workers’ rights and environmental protection, as if we are saved from Dickensian squalor only by enlightened EU regulation ... "
He might want to look at the history of Tory opposition to the Working Time Directive.
Historical revisionism ... yeah, that's the next stage - helped by a Great British Public with a collective memory akin to that of a goldfish.
ON EDIT :
I realise that the Working Time Directive is not the be-all-and-end-all of workers rights but if you look at the major social reforms in Britain, they were implemented by the reforms of the Liberal government of 1906-14 and Labour government of 1945-51 and the Tory contributions were .... ?
It would be inconvenient of Johnson to remember that the 1906 Liberal government was voted in largely on proposed social reforms which 'took inspiration' from Bismarck's reforms such as sickness insurance for workers in Germany.
Prior to that time, successive British governments thought social problems could be solved through voluntary action, self-help and charity ... see also Mogg's positive view of food banks.
Of course, Johnson is well-educated ... he went to private school not some state education dump that has given up on educashun. Probably done some Tennyson an' all ....
'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd ?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die,
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
