An agency worker, employed to replace the P&O crew, has told LBC why he decided walk away from the 'well paid job'
"And I said yep great no worries can I have the name of the ship or any of the information that you have got and they said look sorry mark we haven’t got any, we just know it is coming into service and we would like you to be on it.
"So I said well that’s fine it is a bit odd but to be quite honest it was no big deal, you know it was a reputable good agency I was dealing with and I've dealt with them before and they are quite fine. "So I was asked to go to Glasgow last Monday and that I'd be in stand by in Glasgow for when the ship came in and then we would do a hand over with the crew on board."
When Mark arrived in Glasgow he was introduced to around 16 other British workers also lined up to start new roles on the ship. After several days of being kept in the dark about their new jobs, the crew set up a Whatsapp group called "mystery ship" and on Wednesday evening the crew were told to wear full PPE for their first day on board on Thursday, something Mark described as "unusual".
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