Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
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 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteYes, 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.
DeleteIt won’t work unless Labour backs it.
ReplyDeleteAnd 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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