We seriously doubt its effectiveness unless the illegally imported tobacco floodgates are closed.
As for the "precedent"and"floodgates" arguments, let us consider what has been done already.
However, they have levelled the charge that when we abolished prenotification we opened the floodgates for price increases.
We are not opening the floodgates of social change for further reductions in the age of consent.
If one proprietor was able and willing to raise floodgates, his efforts could be rendered useless by some other proprietor further up the water.
Do we want to open the floodgates of suffering even further?
What they are doing will throw open the floodgates.
The abolition of the resolution opens the floodgates of competition based on under-cutting those already on low wages to provide the cheapest possible tender.
