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Originally Posted by Greg Pope
Tomorrow's vote is not really about keeping post offices open. It is an opposition day (when the opposition get to choose the topic) and the Tories will table a motion just saying keep post offices open - it will not say how this should be funded or done, it is simply designed to try and embarrass Labour MPs so they can say that we voted against a motion to keep post offices open. It is childish politics although, to be fair, it is exactly what we did when we were in opposition.
There are around 13,500 post offices in the UK of which around 9,000 lose money, currently at the rate of around half a million pounds a day. I'm opposed to the scale of the closure programme (nationally around 2,500 are due to close of which 5 are in Hyndburn) but we do need to face up to the the twin difficulties of finding people to run them (most closures are happening with the agreement of the postmaster) and funding them at a time when fewer and fewer people are using them. To give one example, I renewed my car tax online last week instead of using a post office, and millions of other people will do similarly.
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Fare play Greg for explaining what is happening tomorrow in the big house and that it is a ploy used by all parties in opposition as you quite rightly put, that is politics. Even though to my way of thinking its not really about making a profit its about providing a service, not so much for people up to our age group by that I mean early sixties (I know you've a long way to go to reach that) its the people who are in their 70s and 80s that I am concerned about, people who are set in their ways and are unable to get about as well as they once could, we do tend to forget about these people who, in the past have given so much and are to easily written and that should be off concern to all politicians whether Red Blue or Yellow. Oh by the way I like the colour of your text, nice choice
