Ditch this dreary sell-off: let creativity deliver Royal Mai

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A very good article from John Harris
'Though the Tory leadership support the government, a few Conservatives are apparently also on board, well aware that this one of those issues on which the political elite is in danger of arrogantly peeling away from the public.

They're the kind of arguments at which the Westminster class tends to scoff, but out in the electoral fields, MPs say they feel pretty much unanswerable. If the closure of post offices is still a sore point in hundreds of constituencies, won't this create even more anger? What with the endless billions being thrown at the banks, even if Royal Mail needed a few hundred million to assist its development, would that be so unthinkable? And why, after all that stuff about Britishness, are we ready to sell a share of such a totemic national institution - with a history dating back to 1516 - to a big foreign conglomerate?'




Part of my walk is a very affluent part of the town,I was stopped three times yesterday by customers,asking about the privatisation,the demo etc,without exception they were solidly behind the posties,normally when we strike you can tell that there no happy with us,but they were all saying that we have to fight this,there is a hell of a lot of support out there,Is this going to be the start of the summer of discontent that will scupper Blu Labour?

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Is this going to be the start of the summer of discontent that will scupper Blu Labour?