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Certainly not the impression I've got from media reports of demos and Uber Eat strike days etc. The reality is probably somewhere in the middle.

For drivers I don't understand the appeal of being self employed there's nothing to gain by it.

If they still want to show they're operating as self employed they can with a b2b relationship with Uber, website and advertising, exercising right of substitution, and all the other HMRC indicators of being in business.

And all people on zero-hours contracts love that and all children who worked in factories were violently against being sent to school.

There's a whole class of workers want the flexibility. Students, people who can only work a few hours. Etc

And this ruling won't in any way affect that. There's nothing in the definition of worker that has regular hours.

The two drivers are test plaintiffs. It's the British legal system's alternative to the class action, where a few representative claimants are chosen for a full trial, and the parties agree that the legal result controls the other cases.

I don't know how many are in the '& others' in this case.