Bluerover
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If so what is he going to do about it. Is the DPP on the job?
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Alan Whittle
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I don’t know anything, same as you. But as they’re lawyers it would be reasonable to assume that they know the law. It was you who said that you thought Civil Service Lawyers would have been involved.
spectateur
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It may have been mentioned on here before but P+O couldn't fire any of its Irish or French crews because they were protected by EU law.
Another thing given away in the brexit fiasco.
Another thing given away in the brexit fiasco.
roydo
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This thread has done one thing. Make me realise I havnt a clue about the staffing and the domicle status of shipping
But on the EU thing. I thought that after Brexit, May basically put all the EU rules onto the UK statute book, the idea being that they would remove/alter each one in the fullness of time.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
I agree, you don’t know anything….
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
I don’t know mate, he suggested fines would be going their way, but it will be interesting to see how it plays out. Meanwhile 800 people, who may be bought off, have to find another job, and it’s a disgrace…..
random
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One of the few things I learned was when I spoke to a captain of a ferry (UK to Europe) and he said he didn't pay any tax as he made sure he wasn't in the UK for 6 months in a calendar year. If it was close then he made sure he was abroad on his holidays rather than stay at home in the UK.
It was quite a few years ago though, so stuff has probably changed since that conversation.
There has been a lot of problems with the crews on board ships for years , look up flags of convenience, the likes of Malta , Panama , Liberia, its been going on here as well ships supposed to be working outside of are waters in international waters, and registered overseas, but effectively based here employing people on peanuts , Philippines, India and some Eastern European countries normally.
When I was working on the docks( in the office not a docker) about 30 years a go , we had a ship in crewed by Romanian seamen they were on 1 dollar 58 cents American ,an hour wasn't far off a pound at the time.
The Indian ships were even worse ,crew living and eating on top of the cargo(animal food), you had to see ot to believe it.
The whole thing needs looking at.
Still going on , I know fellas working on rigs , who do it
, Few have started to say they property on the Isle of man, lately so that will be another dodge I presume?
Load of lads that worked on rigs got caught up in tax evasion scams and ended up owing HMRC a fortune. Guys used to go round building sites as well getting folk to sign up to mad schemes. Usually came back to bite them a few years later.
Alan Whittle
Player Valuation: £70m
lol
Pete, either Boris ignored the advice from his legal experts or he doesn’t know the law passed by his own government. It’s one of the two!
Note the average pay of £5.50 for the new crew, wonder what the lowest is?
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
I see the boss of P&O has now admitted that they broke the law, they knew what they were supposed to do but ‘chose not to do so’
Is this the point where all those of you who insisted Boris was telling lies, now apologise and admit you were wrong, and I get to put in a laughing emoji…
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