In its final year as a public company, the Royal Mail made £440 million. It has just paid record half-yearly dividends of £68 million to those who bought it for one billion pounds less than its true value. It is time for renationalisation. And it is time for a criminal investigation into this larceny.
To whom does the "Royal" in "Royal Mail" now refer? Presumably to one its major shareholders, the Emir of Kuwait. Why are the Queen's image and the Royal Cypher still on the stamps and the postboxes? Why not the face and symbol of Sheikh Sabah IV Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah? Or else what, I feel increasingly bound to ask, is the point of the British monarchy? If it can have presided over this, then what has ever been the point of it?
To whom does the "Royal" in "Royal Mail" now refer? Presumably to one its major shareholders, the Emir of Kuwait. Why are the Queen's image and the Royal Cypher still on the stamps and the postboxes? Why not the face and symbol of Sheikh Sabah IV Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah? Or else what, I feel increasingly bound to ask, is the point of the British monarchy? If it can have presided over this, then what has ever been the point of it?
God, I wish you were in Parliament. Look who is, but you're not.
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