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Originally Posted by Rhyming Obituary
TUPE doesn't go far enough in ensuring that workers rights are protected, and if you ask me, it's time the government started introducing quotas detailing how much of a percentage of staff must be "directly" employed by a company, or at the very least, directly employed within the UK.
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If the UK government dared to do anything like that then we'd be penalised by the World Trade Organisation for restricting the free flow of goods and services internationally. This would mean tariffs and restrictions on what we could buy and sell abroad that would not be welcomed by UK consumers.
Cut-price electronics from the Far East and cheap food imports from Africa are the flip-side of the new economics of globalisation -- what folks from Greenpeace and human rights organisations have been yelling for years.
By all means call for a return to protectionism (and I'd be one of the first to support you) but expect to be shouted down by every shopper out for a bargain, let alone the financiers who call the politicians' tune!
Apologies for the political rant -- you'll now be returned to the mass consumer market of the 21st century....
