On 16/01/2021 13:28, Fredxx wrote:
On 16/01/2021 11:37, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Perhaps you'd like that extended to every single worker in the country
(where possible)? No? Just why would that be?

Of course some poor sod in a shop forced to work Xmas eve doesn't matter.

That is their choice. I would say if you really don't want to work
Christmas Eve you really ought to have chosen an alternative career.
There is always a choice....

Like not accepting a Ministerial post.

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If she had read the deal, do you think the result would now be different?

If she had rang Boris and said 'no' would he have taken much notice? I
sincerely doubt it.

But she would be able to tell the people whose interests she is supposed
to be looking out for that she did at least raise objections, not that
she was too busy to check.

As others have said fisheries are a small portion of
the UK economy, but still much larger than Harrod's turnover.

The poor (but still most profitable in the EU, with the second largest
tonnage of ships) fishing industry has had a disproportionate political
importance since the referendum.



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Colin Bignell