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BRITAIN’S 115,000 red post boxes should be given listed building status to stop foreign companies changing their colour, the Government was told yesterday.
Tory MP Philip Hollobone said: “Were they to disappear as a result of privatisation it would be a national shame.” He told postal affairs minister Ed Davey that they were a great British symbol.
Mr Davey told Mr Hollobone that the “much-loved” boxes would remain red.
“Given the Royal Mail has 300 litres of red paint in stock, I think he can sleep easy in his bed,” he said.
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POST BOXES MUST STAY RED, SAYS TORY MP PHILIP HOLLOBONE
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Re: POST BOXES MUST STAY RED, SAYS TORY MP PHILIP HOLLOBONE
f***ing TWAT

The time has come to stop turning the other cheek, time to stop shaking our heads in bitter dismay, time to stop mumbling our angry words.
The time has come for union.
The time has come for union.
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Re: POST BOXES MUST STAY RED, SAYS TORY MP PHILIP HOLLOBONE
Are those f***ing jokers for real????
What f***ing difference does the colour of pillar boxes make, when our postal service will have been handed lock, stock, and barrel , to foreign privateers intent on ripping-off the not-so-great British public????
I sometimes feel that the United Kingdom is the world's largest nut house, I really do.

What f***ing difference does the colour of pillar boxes make, when our postal service will have been handed lock, stock, and barrel , to foreign privateers intent on ripping-off the not-so-great British public????
I sometimes feel that the United Kingdom is the world's largest nut house, I really do.
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Re: POST BOXES MUST STAY RED, SAYS TORY MP PHILIP HOLLOBONE
DirtyHarry wrote:Are those f***ing jokers for real????![]()
What f***ing difference does the colour of pillar boxes make, when our postal service will have been handed lock, stock, and barrel , to foreign privateers intent on ripping-off the not-so-great British public????
I sometimes feel that the United Kingdom is the world's largest nut house, I really do.![]()
I know all they are bothered about is keeping post boxes red and the Queens head staying on stamps , f*ck the univeral service , the Great British public getting their mail delivered cheaply and the thousands of jobs .
Moya states that it's wrong for the British public to fund the modernisation of RM and bail out the pension deficit through taxation , so is she under the impression that some rich Arab is going to buy RM ( like they would a football club ) and run it for fun . When RM is privatised RM'S customers will be paying , who's that then Moya ? oh yes the British public but on top of modernisation they will have to pay the shareholders and for senior managements massive wage increases . The ConDems friends and Moya and Co will be like pigs at a through , they are repulsive greedy people and the British public are just going to sleep walk into this disaster and let RM be stolen
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Re: POST BOXES MUST STAY RED, SAYS TORY MP PHILIP HOLLOBONE
what a bunch of tossers, the boxes are to stay red then , that makes everything all right eh ??? 
"why should it just be the bankers, politicians and the idle rich who get all the best things ? we demand a standard of living for our members that enables them to share in the fine wines and times that the likes of Cameron and his Eton buddies take for granted " - the late great Bob Crow RIP.
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Re: POST BOXES MUST STAY RED, SAYS TORY MP PHILIP HOLLOBONE
tory mp,s in red paint price fixing shocker
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Re: POST BOXES MUST STAY RED, SAYS TORY MP PHILIP HOLLOBONE
I know. God forgive me, but I could quite easily take a gun to them, very easily indeed.borders wrote:what a bunch of tossers, the boxes are to stay red then , that makes everything all right eh ???
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Re: POST BOXES MUST STAY RED, SAYS TORY MP PHILIP HOLLOBONE
“Given the Royal Mail has 300 litres of red paint in stock, I think he can sleep easy in his bed,” he said.
That's not very much is it?
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