Well the Tories are the supreme party of the scrapping of all workers' rights. They've been at it ever since Maggie took ideological revenge on the miners and steelworkers by trashing their communities and wrecking the futures and self-respect of millions of ordinary working people (whilst simultaneously giving the yuppies free rein to rip the country off). They dress it up via the ultimate euphemism "the flexible labour market." That basically means that trade unions are emasculated, that job security is a thing of the past, that temporary, part-time and bogus "apprenticeship" become de rigeur, that millions have to be declared "self-employed" so that employers don't have to pay their stamps or provide holiday or maternity pay, that a million or more can be put on zero-hours contracts, not knowing from day to day whether there will be work or pay. Blair's second-biggest sin was to fail to reverse that vengeance. Or was it his short-sighted failure to restore regulation of the banks... So, anyway, scrapping the working time directive, one of the EU's best and most humane rules, will be scrapped. No surprise there then.