2010 Postal Services Bill Third Reading - Wednesday 12th Jan

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No.032/11

Ref GS 11. 0

Date: 11 /01/11
(TO ALL BRANCHES)

TO: The Branch Secretary

Dear Colleague,

2010 Postal Services Bill Third Reading - Wednesday 12th January 2011

The proposed amendments and new clauses to the 2010 Postal Services Bill can now be viewed and downloaded by accessing the following link :-

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/p ... -1343.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

We are concentrating our efforts on opposing privatisation, the Universal Service Obligation (USO), Regulation and the Inter Business Agreement (IBA)

Through the offices of Michael Connarty MP (Linlithgow and East Falkirk and Secretary of the CWU-supported group of MPs) Committee Room 7 has been made available at the House of Commons on Wednesday 12th January 2011 from 10.00am - 1.00pm for those Branches who intend to lobby and brief their MPs. The General Secretary and Deputy General Secretary (Postal) will be available and in attendance during this period. We recognise the heavy schedule for branch officials but do hope you take this opportunity prior to the third reading debate.

Any enquiries on this LTB should be addressed to the General Secretary's office.

Yours sincerely,

W HAYES D WARD

General Secretary Deputy General Secretary (P)

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And so it starts...... :vcfo :vcfo :vcfo :vcfo :vcfo :vcfo :vcfo :vcfo :vcfo :vcfo

[Night Tonic]

And the icons no defence. Amendments rejected.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Notice how the government benches had a lot of smarmy and supercilious people, whom you don't normally see, smirking during the debate and adding nothing to it - Not that different from RMC in that respect.

[Night Tonic]

Thats life eh. Cripes even the most ill-informed must surely realise theres no stopping this sale whether armed with pies or not.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Thats life eh. Cripes even the most ill-informed must surely realise theres no stopping this sale whether armed with pies or not.

I refer the honourable member to previous answers to simlar points - please use the search facility if you can't recall my exact answer.