Tears as Ribble Valley MP sells off his family business in Swansea (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Tears as Ribble Valley MP sells off his family business in Swansea
10:46am Tuesday 16th October 2012 in News
By Bill Jacobs, Local government reporter
Nigel Evans MP
TEARFUL MP Nigel Evans has sold his family shop after 80 years but vowed to keep on fighting for small businesses nationally and in East Lancashire.
The Ribble Valley Tory spent the weekend in Swansea transferring the newsagents, tobacconists and convenience store to the postmistress round the corner and saying goodbye to staff and customers.
The business was founded by his grandfather in 1932 then run by his mother and father and then him and his sister Louise.
Mr Evans said: “It was a wrench. When I was saying goodbye to the staff and the customers I was very weepy-eyed and when I drove away I just could not look back.
“We’ve had this business in the family for 80 years but my sister Louise said after 20 years she wanted a career change and a holiday. Like many other family businesses we have had to give in to the pressures of being there all day, every day. At last this year I can have the whole family up to Ribble Valley for Christmas.
“I started working there when I was about ten. I took it over when I left university because my father Albert was ill and ran it for ten years before standing for Ribble Valley in 1991 and while my late mother and sister ran it, I used to do occasional shifts there in the holidays.
Mr Evans, who was attacked by a shoplifter while working in the store in 2000, has championed the small and medium sized business community at Westminster, winning an award from the Forum of Private Business for his work on their behalf in 2007.
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Malthus
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2:08pm Tue 16 Oct 12
shytalk wrote:I am certain that there are jobs for people with the right connections on the boards of such companies as Starbucks, Vodaphone, KFC and all of the other multinationals, who are making billions in the UK but allegedly paying very little tax.
Hell now where is he ever going to find a job when he gets kicked out at the next election along with the rest of the corrupt, unelected junta? Workfare at Ultraframe perhaps.
Noiticer
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3:37pm Tue 16 Oct 12
Major Tom
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4:08pm Tue 16 Oct 12
Where's my violin. Oh the drama.
2 for 5p
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4:37pm Tue 16 Oct 12
, I used to do occasional shifts there in the holidays.
Ok I hope you payed the correct rate of oncome tax on them shifts mr Evans , if it was a single parent working a few shifts on the side iin a local shop, your kind would call them thieves.
In fact I would like you to prove you payed the correct rate of tax.
2 for 5p
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7:02pm Tue 16 Oct 12
Tory can't Run a sweet shop
shytalk
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7:06pm Tue 16 Oct 12
2 for 5p wrote:Better give him a brush and see how he goes on with that.
The headline in this article needs to change , hows this.
Tory can't Run a sweet shop
sen c ble
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8:27pm Tue 16 Oct 12
MrClaret
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8:29am Wed 17 Oct 12
rover95
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8:23am Fri 19 Oct 12
shytalk says...
1:28pm Tue 16 Oct 12