Back To Basics

Backed by all manner of his Rightist brethren, Mark Menzies MP this week sought to introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill, so with no chance in itself but nevertheless a marker for the future, to allow the last Conservative Government's introduction of a Sunday trading free-for-all to be compounded by even further relaxation during the London Olympics.

It is to everlasting shame of Labour that, having rightly opposed this regression to the days before Nonconformist Radicals freed the working classes from the tyranny of seven-day working weeks, it failed to repeal that regression while in office. Unworthy of the Christian Socialist pioneers? Certainly. But also unworthy of Socialist International partners such as the Sunday-protecting Mayor of Paris, who is exactly as godly as any other flamboyantly homosexual French left-winger.