Snp May Kill Plans For English Shops To Open Longer On A Sunday.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3483421/SNP-kill-plan-longer-Sunday-trading-MPs-vote-Tory-rebels-Labour-ensure-shops-open-longer-six-hours.html

Whether or not you are in favour of keeping the English Sunday opening times as they are, should Scottish MPs be allowed to vote for them to stay as they are, even though it doesn't affect them, since Scottish shops are allowed to open longer on a Sunday?

[sandyRoe]

No, not the SNP. It will be the will of parliament if the exploitation of shop workers by heartless Tories is stymied.

[Bazile]

The SNP claims it will affect scottish workers

Quote from elsewhere -

//The SNP says the decision was not made to make life difficult for shoppers in England, but to protect the pay of retail workers in Scotland.//

[mikey4444]

The Midlothian Question has been around for a long time now AOG, and its not going to go away.

I have mixed feelings about sunday opening. Like most people, I avail myself of the opportunity to shop, but the plight of shop workers concerns me.

[Bazile]

//Shop staff currently get a premium for working on a Sunday but the SNP - and unions like Usdaw - believe an extension to Sunday shopping hours in England and Wales would increase the likelihood that retailers would pay just single time for staff across the whole of the UK.//

[douglas9401]

The first thing to say is that they're MPs from Scotland, still part of the UK despite their best efforts, so of course they should be allowed to vote.
The second is that they've a collective brass neck given the Sunday opening situation in Scotland.
Thirdly, I'm sure the previous SNP leader, his immensity Big Eck had a policy of keeping the party out of purely English matters.
That last one was of course before the First Miniature, Ms Sturgeon, got her mitts on the reins and a good sized squad of drones in place at Wastemonster.

[mikey4444]

The staff in my local Co-op, most of which are friends, tell me that working some Sundays on a rota basis is pretty much compulsory, and that is with the opening hours that we have have today.

But I am not sure why we need longer shopping hours on Sundays in the first place....the hours that they are open now seems quite sufficient as it is.

[douglas9401]

The West Lothian Question Mikey? As posed by our former MP, Tam Dalyell.

[mikey4444]

I stand corrected Dougie !

[douglas9401]

I only mention it for the sake of accuracy, Mikey, not to chide. :-)

[mikey4444]

I am grateful Dougie, and anyway, I need a little chide every now and then !
(usually its Naomi's job though )

[Gromit]

I guess they are giving us a taste of our own medicine. During the Thatcher years when a Tory MP north of the border was rarer than the Loch Ness Monster, the Scots had all sorts of terrible legislation imposed on them.

Maybe they are trying to make themselves unpopular so that there will be less opposition to them leaving the UK?

[Bazile]

^^^^
what another referendum ?

[ToraToraTora]

there is no opposition gromit, give the sassenachs the vote and the scottish would be out before you could say jimmy Krankie.

[webbo3]

I think the hours are fine as they are, anyone who can't manage to find the time go shopping between 10:30 and 4:30 on a sunday needs to organise their life a bit better.



Dave.

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35768674

Its happened....Government defeated.

[Gromit]

Webbo3
Why should the Government stop us shopping when we want? What is it to do with them when we can trade and shot.
And we shop on-line 24/7, so with such meddling, no wonder the high street is on its knees.

[Goofy]

you planning on shoting often Gromit?

But of course any MP can and should vote on any policy they care about. A lot of legistlation (before and after Thatcher) was imposed on scots by english votes (and Welsh and Irish) - why shouldn't the reverse apply.

[webbo3]

what about all the people that work in retail Gromit, most dont have a choice about working on a sunday and would prefer to be at home with their families or have a shorter day, if they had the chance most shops would be open till midnight on sunday just for some sad bar steward to buy a pint of milk, ask yourself this if your boss suddenly said you have to work 6 hours on a sunday for no extra money would you be happy.




Dave.

[DTCwordfan]

It's all part of those slimy fishes' tactics, Sturgeon and Salmon, to position themselves for a referendum post June....on the basis of they know best for Scotland and that is independence and remaining in the EEC......

Open the champagne and break out the caviar.