Leah, here, of course, may or may not be the Leah Green from fakebook.

In any event, it would help to get the facts of the Lindsey refinery strikes correct.

Total is a French company. It owns the Lindsey refinery. France is in the EU.

The bit I am having a slight trouble tracing right now is that Total wanted a large construction project carried out at Lindsey and I am sure that they engaged a US corporation and the US corporation then engaged a subcontractor, IREM, for part of the work.

The Italian (Italy is part of the EU)company IREM engaged (in Italy) workers - mainly Portuguese (Portugal is also a member of the EU) and Italian - and some non-EU.

They were engaged in Italy and under Italian law and on Italian terms. But under the EU "Posted Workers Directive" IREM could post those cheaper workers to do the work at Lindsey.

So, for the most part, the workers actually doing the work at Lindsey could not have been excluded under EU law and will not be excluded under the proposed reforms. The problem at Lindsey was and is the Posted Workers Directive, there are no plans to change it and it cannot be unilateraly changed by the UK - only under and in accordance with EU law.

It would help communication if the BNP posters had some idea what they were talking about.