What a complete and utter shambles.
Put this in the box with repeal of the Human Rights Act, and in that case probably also with the latest proposed laws against strikes.
Leave room there for the Sunday trading scheme, although that might make it all the way to defeat on the floor of the House of Commons.
As might the Dying Wage, if Labour has the wit to move an amendment for the Living Wage instead. People have devoted decades to working out the Living Wage, including how employers are to be able to afford to pay it.
By the way, when Simon Hughes tried to persuade the Major Government to let local authorities set their own Sunday trading laws, it told him that that would have been a recipe for chaos. So it would have been then. And so it would be now.
Oh, and if Cornwall can have greater powers without a directly elected Mayor, a position that the Conservative Party might even win, then why does the North East, as conspicuously absent from the Budget as from the Northern Powerhouse, need to have one? One, moreover, who would always be Labour, like the one in Greater Manchester?
Oh, and if Cornwall can have greater powers without a directly elected Mayor, a position that the Conservative Party might even win, then why does the North East, as conspicuously absent from the Budget as from the Northern Powerhouse, need to have one? One, moreover, who would always be Labour, like the one in Greater Manchester?
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