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March 18, 2012 3:51 pm

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  • treborc

    Sunday opening hours already give people enough time to buy goods, I mean god forgive anyone who has to work wanting to see the games themselves at home with the kids.

    Are the games only on going on a Sunday

    leave Sunday opening alone.

    let the poor have one day off a week

  • JC

    If the shops don’t make money out of it, then it won’t happen. If the people want this, they’ll use it. Do we need to legislate for everyone? Anyway, if we are a secular society, why worry about Sunday. Why not Saturday or Friday?

    Having had a number of jobs that entailed Sunday working (food manufacture, food testing and Sunday newspaper distribution – not a paper round), I can understand the importance of providing a service to the public. My current job involves me working Tuesday to Saturday, so why shouldn’t shops be open for me to buy on a Sunday?

    • Jeremy_Preece

       The point here, is that there was a time when families could get together because at least one day in the week, people didn’t have to work. This lack of any opportunity to get everyone together is very damaging to family life. It also does nothing to help the divorce rates and family breakdowns, that are so common. I see unrestricted Sunday trading as yet another aspect of the long hours culture which has done so much to damage the quality of so many lives.
      Back in the 1960′s and 70′s, nealy all shops were closed on Sunday, and nobody died! Ultimately however long you make shopping hours, the net result is that the same quantity is sold in total. Once a new business opens, it will have to open Sundays in order to remain competative, and so all shops are forced to follow the longer hours.

      One further point, we are not a secular society – we are a multi cultural society, and that means that secular atheism is one of many beliefs, universal secualr atheism wouldn’t exactly be very diverse – would it?

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