Monday, 22 June 2020

Under Review

We can beat the latest attempt to turn Sunday into just another shopping day.

If we put aside partisan prejudices in this greater cause, then we can win this one.

And since we can, we must.
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous22 June 2020 at 20:59

    With 50 Tory MPs already confirmed against it the proposal’s dead. Anti small business, and anti Christian it’s just unconservative in every sense.

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    1. David Lindsay22 June 2020 at 21:01

      Yes, but then so was the Sunday Trading Act 1994. And so was the Shops Bill 1986. They have been trying to do this for a very long time.

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  2. Anonymous22 June 2020 at 21:06

    It won’t work unless Labour backs it.

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    1. David Lindsay22 June 2020 at 21:20

      And Labour never will. USDAW pays a lot of money to make sure of that. Unlike the Left, the Right has already had one rebellion under Starmer, when Yvette Cooper made a speech explaining her intention to abstain on the Immigration Bill and then abstained. There might be a handful of hardcore Blairite rebels on this, too. But 50 Conservative rebels and the DUP would more than cancel them out. A Labour whip to abstain, however, would be catastrophic. The unions need to lay down the law on this.

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