Misguided view on sackings

When I read the letter from S Taylor (April 7), I found it almost incomprehensible that someone could be so anti-Brexit they could find a way to blame the UK leaving the EU for the sacking of 800 seafarers by P&O Ferries.

Then he claims he is one of those most in the know when in fact the opposite is true, because if he had applied just a little common sense he should have been able to work out that whatever protections were in place in the UK or in the EU, they could not prevent the sackings when P&O Ferries management made the deliberate decision to break the law.

Further evidence that he is not one of those most in the know is the fact that of the 800 illegally sacked seafarers, 60 of them are Irish and that Dutch P & O Ferries staff in Rotterdam refused to load a P&O Ferries vessel bound for Hull, because they knew they might be next.

They knew what S. Taylor does not know and failed to make even the minimum of effort to find out. That is; if the vessels are registered elsewhere the legal obligation on the company is to inform the authorities where the vessels are registered. Consequently, the normal employment protections of the seafarers’ domicile countries do not apply. Brexit or no Brexit. Christopher Hudson-Gool

Sorry S. Taylor (letters, April 7) the P&O employment debacle has absolutely nothing to do with Brexit. It does, however, have everything to do with globalism, something which the EU bloc countries readily pander to.

P&O Ferries are now owned by DP World in Dubai and the ships registered in Cyprus. P&O will obviously use these facts to worm their way out of any UK Employment Law repercussions.

This should serve as a warning to all the would be globalists.

If we insist on selling our key companies plus defence and services infrastructures to foreign buyers then we also sell our employment protection and in the case of defence much more besides.

Alan King