There can be only one choice between Boston and Berlin. Have people looked at what is happening on the other side of the Atlantic? Do they understand what it is like for women working in the great US who are not entitled to maternity leave? Workers' holidays are on a grace and favour basis. People who left this island 20 years ago do not have time to come home on holidays because their holidays are not long enough to make it worthwhile. This is what we are looking at.