Cowards!

[callmemadam]

Only twenty Labour MPs voted against the government's plans to close 2,500 sub-post offices. I wonder if they included Justice Minister Jack Straw, who campaigned against closures in his own constituency? Rhetorical question. 'Community' is a word we are all getting sick of, thanks to its indiscriminate use. In the case of small post offices, it does have some meaning, especially since so many pubs have closed. This is as bad as Beeching's Axe for people in remote places and, like the recent Budget, hits the poorest people hardest. Apparently there are four million fewer users of post offices than there were two years ago. In two years' time there will be even fewer, making this a self-justifying decision. 'The People's Post Office'? What a joke.

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[sloopjonb.livejournal.com]

Idiots.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Yup!

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

Have they considered that the reason why there are so many fewer users of the post office is that there are fewer accessible post offices for them to get to?

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Stands to reason, innit? A lot of the closures will be in urban areas and will mean even longer queues in the offices which stay open. In Bournemouth they are fighting like mad to stop the PO being moved permanently into W H Smith's! Upstairs! The harder it is to use...

[dozydormouse.livejournal.com]

Soon we will all be using couriers to send a letter because it will be too damn complicated not to.

[dozydormouse.livejournal.com]

I am also raging about this. They want to close our sub post office and we are all opposing it as vigourously as we can. We have just been betrayed by our Government who could have stopped this.

It is a decision which will hit the old, the disabled and the vulnerable hardest. So mcuh for NuLAb society which promised to look after them... Time to stop paying for things for any minority group until the majority services which benefit those of every race, colour, creed and orientation are sorted. Transport, Helath, Education and the Post Office. After that we can fuss about trivial things.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

a decision which will hit the old, the disabled and the vulnerable hardest
Absolutely. A rather more important issue than plastic bags, which seem to be worrying the PM.