Cunard quashes Mersey rumours (From Daily Echo)

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  phil maccavity wrote:
  

  southy wrote:
  Tourism do not benefit ordinary working class people, tourism is very cheap labour wages, long hours, poor working conditions, these type of corporations many are only small corporations dont like employing local people because they will have to pay them the NWL, so they employ overseas workers so the wages are below the NWL, and the idea of off brinning overseas work force is to break the NWL and national agreement, I am one off those that would pass a law enforcing all companys to pay overseas work force the NWL, and to agree on the national agreement for them also.
  Tourism might sound alot incoming revenue but compair that with industral industary it peanut money, The locals put a lot more money into a local economy than a tourist

  Southy
  Your comments always me smile(generally with despair)
  I guess you are not aware that the main thrust of Liverpool's argument for the £17m of grant aid for the cruise terminal was that it would increase tourism to the city.
  They have used massive UK and EC grants to restructure their economy to focus on tourism and, to be fair, have been pretty successful at it.
  Presumably TUSC in Liverpool don't share your view!!

  Well they have some thing to offer, Southampton don't its been screwed up, and then again just across the way you got one of the major car manufaturers that employs more people than fords do has its own dock for car shipping, has a container port also thet the guys there are on better pay then here in Southampton, still has workable dry docks, they still have some ship building repairs but that looks like it dieing out now, same problem there as here, they can not dry dock any of these new large container or passenger ships.
  If this council and ABPj used there heads they could of built a dry dock at 101 berth that could of been wider and longer than any of these new super passenger liners, that would of bought orders in to build one or two of these new ships, and to be able to get them out of the water for repairs and hull painting ect."
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