Captain Haddock wrote:It will be interesting to see how HMG proposes legislation to make sure 'ferries' arriving in the UK make sure that all workers on board are paid at the national minimum wage while most of the stuff you've bought today has been brought in by freight ships where workers are paid much less (hence the cheapness of your goods).
You're presumably referring to container freight as opposed to Ro-Ro. Don't quite understand why you need to put 'ferries' in inverted commas. Different market, old boy. Not much of our fresh tucker comes buried in a 40x20ft container from China.
Not hard to apply different rules for crew travelling from Dover to Calais 4 times a day. To use your favourite phrase - get real.
