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:Why is Barnes and Noble performing well as a business while Borders has filed for bankruptcy? What is so different about how they are run? This is a question that many of us at Borders asked ourselves frequently and I think the answer is not a simple one. As someone who has given this a tremendous amount of thought and was Director of Merchandise Planning & Analysis for many years, I've outlined my assessment below…"
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Review of a book on the life of the most famous person to come from Loughbrickland. (Or, well, near Loughbrickland. Near-ish, anyway.)
Sorry, thought I had replied to this earlier.
I would be frankly surprised if there really are new employment law “edicts” coming as frequently as every few weeks from Brussels. If your contacts are complaining about being compelled to offer equal pay to women, or decent working hours to their employees, my sympathy will be a bit limited. In any case, it’s the British government’s responsibility to 2) make the regulations less baffling and workable, and 1) to negotiate them in the first place.
And if the UK withdraws from the EU, but still wants to participate in the single market, it will end up like Norway or Switzerland, compelled to implement most of the EU regulations anyway but with no voice at the table where they are decided.
One of UKIP’s other appeals is that they are anti-migration, which perhaps has broader appeal than opposition to the EU.