Ripping the Heart out of our Communities
Many of us have long been suspicious of plans (sometimes ill concealed) to close down a large part of our network of post offices. Now it’s official– death by a million cuts the withdrawal of government business like renewal of TV licences and the withdrawal of the Post Office Card Account mock the claim of the Labour Government “it’s nothing to do with me Guv”. Such assertions ring pretty hollow. I expect we will have ritual and wringing from Labour members in the National Assembly bemoaning the decision as if it were being made by alien beings on a moon of Jupiter rather than by the same party at the other end of the M4. Labour at Westminster used to be held up as the other half of a close dynamic partnership, closer than Torvill and Dean more durable than Richard and Judy. Now the relationship looks as fractured as the Venus de Milo and as attractive as Burke and Hare on a bad day. I have put in a request to the Presiding Officer to ask an urgent question on the run down of the network of post offices.
