With the Royal Mail undervalued by more than a billion pounds of your money and mine, Chuka Umunna has finally called on the Government to "pull the plug" on this privatisation.
That can only mean one thing. So say it. And then, even at this late stage, no one would take the risk.
When the debate comes down to its market valuation, then you know all principle is gone.
ReplyDeleteWhy?
ReplyDeleteThe implication is that, if we were getting a better price for the sale, then it would be just fine.
ReplyDeleteThis will go ahead, of course. And nobody in Parliament will reverse it.
This is the last hope. Might it even be possible, since the public is getting such a poor deal, to stop this in the courts, at least for long enough to force a Commons vote?
ReplyDeleteWhen Chuka Umunna grows up, he wants to be David Lindsay.
ReplyDeleteYou can't do both.
ReplyDeleteIf you give up hoping the country can be saved, you start to feel much less disappointed about it.
ReplyDelete"You can't do both".
Growing up is overrated.
Excellent Mail editorial today on the betrayal of the Royal Mail and the taxpayers to Goldman Sachs and the City.
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It has never been without its better angels. Stephen Lawrence, and all that. Plus plenty of space for anti-war conservatives over the last dozen years.
ReplyDeleteI have to say that the Mail has unfortunately given succour to the enemies of a free press and the enemies of conservatism (and Christianity) all over Britain.
ReplyDeleteThose Guardianistas who've always wanted to silence all socially conservative voices in the press are having a field day with the "evil gay baiting, woman hating Daily Mail" stuff.
But, for all its mistakes, it is a great paper which stands up for Christians and for Britain, and we'd be the poorer without it.
Oh, I don't think there's much chance of that.
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