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>> No. 14080 Anonymous
19th April 2014
Saturday 8:31 am
14080 Sunday trading laws.
Sunday trading laws.

Why? What's the point? Why can't I pop in to the local Waitrose tomorrow and buy some broccoli, or indeed on any Sunday at 9am?
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>> No. 14084 Anonymous
19th April 2014
Saturday 9:21 am
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>>14080

Scotland doesn't have this, but my friend used to work in Berwick communting from Eyemouth and it made her so angry because it affected her hours if she had to work a Sunday.

I don't really see the point in it, to be honest. I'm a filthy foriegner in this context though, so what do I know; I've never researched it.
>> No. 14091 Anonymous
19th April 2014
Saturday 1:48 pm
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It's so that God can have a day off mate.
>> No. 14093 Anonymous
19th April 2014
Saturday 2:05 pm
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Maybe I'm being a naive young Red, with dreams of a Co-op that works and a Labour that isn't New, but I thought it was so the worker Proles could have a day off?
>> No. 14094 Anonymous
19th April 2014
Saturday 2:13 pm
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>>14093
But if all the worker proles have their day off on Sunday, when do they do their shopping?

On point of fact, the prohibition against opening on Sundays was not to protect the worker, but was indeed originally a codification of the church's desire to keep Sunday as the Lord's day. As evidence of how little it serves to protect workers, look at the legal fiction of "browsing time".
>> No. 14096 Anonymous
19th April 2014
Saturday 2:23 pm
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>>14094
>On point of fact, the prohibition against opening on Sundays was not to protect the worker, but was indeed originally a codification of the church's desire to keep Sunday as the Lord's day

I thought this was common knowledge.

I was going to argue it could have the side effect of boosting small retailers, but they won't open on Sunday anyway. Yes, it's a pointles anachronism. In Germany nothing opens on Sunday at all.
>> No. 14098 Anonymous
19th April 2014
Saturday 2:26 pm
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>>14096

>In Germany nothing opens on Sunday at all.

Not even peoples eyes...
>> No. 14099 Anonymous
19th April 2014
Saturday 2:28 pm
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Many European countries have far stricter Sunday trading laws than us. Britain has drastically liberalised Sunday trading over recent years, and until 1994 only a handful of retailers could open at all on Sunday.

The secular argument usually given is that restrictions on Sunday trading promote family life and community cohesion, by guaranteeing a day of leisure for the majority of workers. Strict Sunday trading laws are a boon for things like Sunday league football. I think our current legislation is an awkward compromise, benefiting only smaller retailers who are exempt from the restriction on opening hours.
>> No. 14101 Anonymous
19th April 2014
Saturday 2:31 pm
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>>14100

In Germany, peoples eyes. When they wake up on Sunday, they can't, or perhaps won't, open there eyes. Often they spend the entire day in bed, becoming increasingly desensitised, often to the point hallucination.
>> No. 14104 Anonymous
19th April 2014
Saturday 2:40 pm
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>>14101
>there
Lad.
>> No. 14105 Anonymous
19th April 2014
Saturday 3:30 pm
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>>14101
I thought it was more insightful than that. My mistake.
>> No. 14108 Anonymous
19th April 2014
Saturday 3:43 pm
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>>14104

I'm sorry, this isn't a good day for me at all. I've got a headache and I just barfed some stomach acid right up through my nose, I did. Right up through my nose.
>> No. 14128 Anonymous
19th April 2014
Saturday 6:38 pm
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>>14108
There there, poppet.

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