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Hardly utopia for workers

PROJECT FEAR, which should have been consigned as a campaigning tactic to the dustbin of history after being discredited during the Scottish independence referendum, is enjoying a fresh lease of life.

David Cameron, who stated before the current EU referendum took off that he could accept whichever decision voters made, now claims that a vote to leave would lead to war.

Not to be outdone, some trade unionists insist that a Leave vote would be followed by a bonfire of all the rights that working people in Britain enjoy.

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