...investment is needed, says MP

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Investment is the only way forward for the Royal Mail claims, Bexhill MP Greg Barker.

He believes the service is “not working properly” in Bexhill and needs to be improved.

Mr Barker met with CWU reps because he received complaints from constituents about sub-standard delivery.

He was told problems were due to “significant under-manning” at Bexhill Post Office but felt the workforce did its best to cope during the busy Christmas period.

He added: “I am not convinced the Post Office locally is being managed well. There is an underlying need to reform the Royal Mail to ensure the standard of service that people have the right to expect.

“That does mean we need to get more investment into it to update and modernise the company and improve management. And that, particularly in the current climate, is going to mean private investment to bring the Royal Mail into the 21st century.

“The Royal Mail isn’t working properly in Bexhill. The status quo is not acceptable. The service needs to be improved. The bottom line is that means bringing in new investment.”

[fishtank]

“The Royal Mail isn’t working properly in Bexhill. The status quo is not acceptable. The service needs to be improved. The bottom line is that means bringing in new investment.”

This is what we will hear from now right into the privatisation debate.
The irony is that as the business and union pushes forward with revisions so more problems with quality of service arise and more opportunistic M.P.s will bring out the investment card.
The Union's determination that modernisation must be seen to be progressing "at pace" may in fact be playing right into the hands of the pro-privatisation brigade.

[clashcityrocker]

Though the real reasons are there.

"Significant under-manning"
"Need to improve management."

I'm not sure that private investment is going to address either of those issues.

[bexhil palace]

Shame you couldn't view the picture attatched to the story.
What a handsome bunch of reps we are

[Phantom]

MP's have put us in this mess in the first place, did the reps say that to the tosser? what a load of bollocks

We used to get an MP coming to our delivery office, every year without fail until all this DSA started, then she was challenged on the shop floor and didn't like it so she's stopped coming - w*****s the lot of em

[Lounge Lizard]

Bexhill MP Greg Baker,

Register of Members’ Interests
1. Remunerated directorships
Director, Flare View Ltd.; property investment company holding freehold property let to commercial tenants.
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Operating adviser to Pegasus Capital Advisors LP, 505 Park Avenue New York, New York 10022, USA. Resigned January 2010.
Payment of £9,989 for October and November 2009. Hours: 17 hrs. (Registered 21 December 2009)
Payment of £9,921 for period 1 December 2009-30 January 2010. Hours: 19 hrs. (Registered 23 February 2010)
4. Sponsorship or financial or material support
(b) Support in the capacity as an MP:
(b) Name of donor: The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
(b) Address of donor: 1st Floor North, Brettenham House, Lancaster House, London WC2E 7EN
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: In my capacity as a Shadow Minister for Climate Change I have benefited from research assistance funded by the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association during January and February 2010; the estimated value of this is £18,000.
(b) Date of receipt: 4 January 2010
(b) Date of acceptance: 4 January-26 February 2010
(b) Donor status: limited liability partnership
(b) (Registered 15 February 2010)
(b) Name of donor: The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
(b) Address of donor: 1st Floor North, Brettenham House, Lancaster Place, London WC2E 7EN.
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: in my capacity as Shadow Minister for Climate Change I have benefited from research assistance during March 2010; the estimated value of which is £7,000.
(b) Date of receipt: 1 March 2010
(b) Date of acceptance: 1 March 2010
(b) Donor status: limited liability partnership
(b) (Registered 8 April 2010)
5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
Name of donor: Pelham Bell Pottinger
Address of donor : 5th Floor, Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn, London WC1V 7QD
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: two tickets to the Conservative Summer Party; value £900.
Date of receipt of donation: 5 July 2010
Date of acceptance of donation: 5 July 2010
Donor status: company, registration number 1983857
(Registered 16 September 2010)
6. Overseas visits
Name of donor: Globe UK All-Party Parliamentary Group
Address of donor: 11 Dartmouth Street, Westminster, London SW1H 9BN
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £5,290.80
Destination of visit: Beijing, China
Date of visit: 24-27 February 2010
Purpose of visit: meetings with the Chairman of the Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee, Congressman Wang Guangtao.
(Registered 9 March 2010)
Name of donor: Globe UK All-Party Parliamentary Group
Address of donor: 11 Dartmouth Street, London SW1H 9BN
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £2991
Destination of visit: Washington DC, USA
Date of visit: 9 and 10 March 2010
Purpose of visit: meetings with members of US Senate and Congress and others
(Registered 23 March 2010)
8. Land and Property
Freehold commercial business park property in East Anglia, from which I receive rental income.
9. Registrable shareholdings
(a) Flare View Ltd.
(b) New European Property Holdings Ltd. (NEPH)
(b) Igroland Ltd; owns and operates children’s entertainment centres in Ukraine.
(b) Hedleigh Mayfair Limited; property investment in London W1.
(b) Mottra Ltd; food manufacture and distribution

[BELIAL]

Bexhill MP Greg Baker,

Register of Members’ Interests
1. Remunerated directorships
Director, Flare View Ltd.; property investment company holding freehold property let to commercial tenants.
2. Remunerated employment, office, profession etc
Operating adviser to Pegasus Capital Advisors LP, 505 Park Avenue New York, New York 10022, USA. Resigned January 2010.
Payment of £9,989 for October and November 2009. Hours: 17 hrs. (Registered 21 December 2009)
Payment of £9,921 for period 1 December 2009-30 January 2010. Hours: 19 hrs. (Registered 23 February 2010)
4. Sponsorship or financial or material support
(b) Support in the capacity as an MP:
(b) Name of donor: The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
(b) Address of donor: 1st Floor North, Brettenham House, Lancaster House, London WC2E 7EN
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: In my capacity as a Shadow Minister for Climate Change I have benefited from research assistance funded by the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association during January and February 2010; the estimated value of this is £18,000.
(b) Date of receipt: 4 January 2010
(b) Date of acceptance: 4 January-26 February 2010
(b) Donor status: limited liability partnership
(b) (Registered 15 February 2010)
(b) Name of donor: The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
(b) Address of donor: 1st Floor North, Brettenham House, Lancaster Place, London WC2E 7EN.
(b) Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: in my capacity as Shadow Minister for Climate Change I have benefited from research assistance during March 2010; the estimated value of which is £7,000.
(b) Date of receipt: 1 March 2010
(b) Date of acceptance: 1 March 2010
(b) Donor status: limited liability partnership
(b) (Registered 8 April 2010)
5. Gifts, benefits and hospitality (UK)
Name of donor: Pelham Bell Pottinger
Address of donor : 5th Floor, Holborn Gate, 330 High Holborn, London WC1V 7QD
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: two tickets to the Conservative Summer Party; value £900.
Date of receipt of donation: 5 July 2010
Date of acceptance of donation: 5 July 2010
Donor status: company, registration number 1983857
(Registered 16 September 2010)
6. Overseas visits
Name of donor: Globe UK All-Party Parliamentary Group
Address of donor: 11 Dartmouth Street, Westminster, London SW1H 9BN
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £5,290.80
Destination of visit: Beijing, China
Date of visit: 24-27 February 2010
Purpose of visit: meetings with the Chairman of the Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee, Congressman Wang Guangtao.
(Registered 9 March 2010)
Name of donor: Globe UK All-Party Parliamentary Group
Address of donor: 11 Dartmouth Street, London SW1H 9BN
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £2991
Destination of visit: Washington DC, USA
Date of visit: 9 and 10 March 2010
Purpose of visit: meetings with members of US Senate and Congress and others
(Registered 23 March 2010)
8. Land and Property
Freehold commercial business park property in East Anglia, from which I receive rental income.
9. Registrable shareholdings
(a) Flare View Ltd.
(b) New European Property Holdings Ltd. (NEPH)
(b) Igroland Ltd; owns and operates children’s entertainment centres in Ukraine.
(b) Hedleigh Mayfair Limited; property investment in London W1.
(b) Mottra Ltd; food manufacture and distribution

No self interest involved from this ordinary man of the people then just like the rest of our political mafia class