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  Keith (B) Competition is a good thing. If you want to make British businesses less competitive by reducing how efficiently they deal with peaks and troughs in orders then by all means ban agencies. That will just result in lost orders for British businesses, fewer jobs, bankruptcies and more unemployment.
  
  Having two sons who started with different agencies and now both in full time work for local companies I can see how they benefit the young unemployed school leavers as well.
  
  Protectionism in trade will also seriously damage our economy. It is not just a matter of how much we sell to China, it is a developing market and utilising that market in both production and sales is beneficial. Start putting up trade blocks and it will end in tears for the UK as that kind of thing can escalate - even wars have started for less reason than that. Incidentally - I observe developments in China professionally as well, as it is an increasingly important investment opportunity. China's economic growth is now shifting from one driven by capital investment to one driven by consumer demand. This is a natural development cycle for an emerging economy and I am not sure just how long we can even regard China as developing any more. This presents a massive export market to us and you are suggesting locking our businesses out of it.

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