Councils will be able to run closure-threatened post offices, the Government confirmed yesterday, the same day Labour MPs voted against a Conservative motion to halt post office closures. The Tories had hoped to persuade an estimated 90 Labour MPs who have campaigned publicly against the closures to vote with them. Unfortunately 70 of the 90 turned out to be hypocrits. To quote Elfyn Llwyd:
“There is a terrible whiff of hypocrisy in Westminster. Many Labour ministers and backbenchers are voting in favour of the closure of post offices, while at the same time running around like headless chickens in their constituencies, pretending to campaign in favour of keeping these post offices open.”
7 opinions:
Hypocrites, especially our very own Betty Williams.
Well my old local council Crewe & Nantwich tried to talk to the post office:
One solution put forward by the Borough Council was that they would consider a proposal whereby the affected post offices would be subsidised from Council funds, however this was rebuffed by Post Office Ltd.
Lembit Opik and Roger Williams did not vote either. So much for their support for post offices. The voters of Powys should be told that these two went missing when their duty was to be in parliament.
I have fond memories of the small post offices in small villages that we grew up in. We had to walk down to the post office (long gone) with the dinner money every Monday. These are body blows to small communities.
Enough to send a Labour pollie schizoid.
How can MPs look themselves in the mirror after campaigning to protect their local post office then voting to let them all rot?
And how will many marginal Labour MPs be able to look in the mirror the morning after losing their seats in May 2008?
This may be the last nail in their postbox.
Post a Comment