'Lie-bour Government to shut another 2500 post offices'

Smidgey · 18-05-2007, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by rjt

Sadly the latter may end up being true, whatever peoples political leanings they should all be concernedabout the level of apathy in this country.

True, but I find it telling that Labour has the highest apathy amongst its supporters. Furthermore, the countryside is not even a Labour supporting area. Although I would rather not see government intervention in funding things like the post office, the problem is that it it is involved in almost every aspect of it that most of them would be unable to survive come any day they decided to withdraw funding. Bureaucracies are never economically viable...

eublues · 18-05-2007, 10:00 AM

The press and the big parties just will not mention the EU on this. Jeff Randall on Queston Time last night had a chance to refer to this dimension but didn't - and he seems to be eurosceptic.

As the UKIP press release suggests, the pressure on government support for post offices will not be going away as the subsidy has only had a limited time period agreed from the EU. The removal of possible useful functions from post offices will run and run.

What a bloody cheek. If the British people want to pay for proper helpful local services there is no case for outside interference. Of course what drives this is giving more business to other (non-UK mainly) postal companies.

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18-05-2007, 10:00 AM	#12 (permalink)
eublues Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 3,128	The press and the big parties just will not mention the EU on this. Jeff Randall on Queston Time last night had a chance to refer to this dimension but didn't - and he seems to be eurosceptic. As the UKIP press release suggests, the pressure on government support for post offices will not be going away as the subsidy has only had a limited time period agreed from the EU. The removal of possible useful functions from post offices will run and run. What a bloody cheek. If the British people want to pay for proper helpful local services there is no case for outside interference. Of course what drives this is giving more business to other (non-UK mainly) postal companies.