Tuesday 5 May 2009

Stop! Wait, Wait A Minute, Mr Postman

With all its businesses in profit for the first time in 20 years, the Royal Mail does not need even partial privatisation.

Those who believe in public services, in strong unions, and in rural communities must unite with those, very largely the same people, who believe in national sovereignty (both as against the EU and as against the foreign acquisition of a key national asset), in the monarchy's direct link to every address in the country, and in rural communities.

Together, we can save our Post Office.

No less than the social, cultural and political arguments, the economic arguments are on our side.

14 comments:

  1. Where did you get this information from that the Royal Mail was in profit?

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  2. First time in 20 years, since the days when Margaret Thatcher was saying that "You can't privatise the Royal Mail, it's Royal". Quite so.

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  3. Sorry, but you didn't quite answer the question - where did you get this information from and could you provide a link or reproduce the figures here please? I've been looking but can't find this data anywhere

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  4. They are at it again David. Nobody diosputes that the RM businesses are in profit and going to remain so. It's just a matter of by how much.

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  5. Oh, I know. I'm not playing their silly little games.

    We went through this in the Major years, when faxes were supposed to kill off the Post Office (no doubt phones once were, too), but when it was really just whining from the people at the top that they were still on (top of the range) public sector pay while the people running the privatised monopoly utilities, including BT, were on megabucks for doing the same job that they had been doing before privatisation. Diddums.

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  6. They are the enemies of the public services, the unions, rural communities, national sovereignty and the monarchy.

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  7. Here you go;
    3 Royal Mail in Profit stories from different sources. In many cases, public ownership makes sense; except, of course, to loss-making private oligopolists seeking a tax-farming opportunity.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/21/royal-mail-profit

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3248545/Royal-Mail-doubles-profit-despite-shutting-1500-post-offices.html

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/royal-mail-reveals-allbusiness-profit-boon-1488441.html

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  8. Indeed they are.

    But they run all three parties, so there is no way of voting against them.

    Unless we make our own, of course.

    As we must: you cannot vote for any of them if you believe in ANY ONE OR MORE of the public services, the unions, rural communities, national sovereignty and the monarchy.

    Leaving those parties with however many people there are in Britain who believe in none of these things.

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  9. Thank you, Martin.

    There you go, children.

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  10. It's all gone quite on here.

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  11. Funny, that...

    I think that we should spare what little remains of the other side's dignity and politely draw this thread to a close.

    Much as will happen in order to avoid a Commons vote? If only...

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  12. I should hope they're making a profit. Have you seen the price of a stamp these days?

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  13. Teslert, thank you for giving me an oportunity to explain something: no, I am not putting up comments to which Martin's has already provided the answer. Which is any more on this thread.

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