Picking up a point I tweeted about a few days ago, and, I think, also pointed out independently by Chris Giles….
It’s a curious thing that the right in the UK may want to leave the EU if David Cameron does not succeed in watering down labour market and social protections that bind the UK enough. Yet, if he does, this will prompt the UK left to want to leave.
And thinking about it the left’s desire to leave seems irrational. If rights get watered down, there’s still the option of topping them up locally. And the watered down rights that remain imposed centrally by the EU act like a guaranteed minimum. If the left were to vote to leave, in a strop, this would expose their workplace constituents to the rise and fall in their own fortunes. In years of electoral wilderness (say, for example, hypothetically, the next 25…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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