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Labour have failed to protect Gillingham Post Offices
Rainham North Councillor David Carr last week issued a statement to the local press, condemning the Government’s failure to protect vulnerable citizens by pledging to close not one, not two, but three Gillingham Post Offices:
“I am appalled at the way in which this Labour government has failed to protect the most vulnerable of our good people in our society. Labour has stolen our pensions; It has presided over the collapse of our NHS dentist services; and now they are to allow the Royal Mail to close down our Post Offices.
The Post Office is a British institution – they are even on OS maps along with churches and other important places. The great British public look for, and expect to see a Post Office wherever they are. It is our intention as Conservative Councillors to do that we can to prevent this closure from happening.
Julie New, the postmistress at the Station Road PO in Rainham, is arranging for petitions to be distributed to all the shops and traders in Rainham, and I hope all of our residents will sign them.”
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I blame Gordon Brown and local MP Paul Clark- the government are planning these closures in kent ahead of other areas in the countr. In the presumption these post ofices close the government will hope that this issue dies away before the next election (2009? now). The voters in key marginals in kent should remember this at the next election.
I personally won’t let people forget – it’s not as if they are just taking the one away, it is three in one constituency in one tranche – and the only word which can describe it is disgraceful!
I personally have fond memories of the Post Office Cllr Carr visited – as it was my local Post Office for five years growing up in Rainham (before I moved to Twydall).
I agree that they are valuable lifelines for many people and find it abhorrent that the Government should even consider closing them (particularly in lieu of current industrial action) and that Mr Clark is happy to sit idly by and watch his constituents suffer!
Martinez is at least partly correct in that the situation specifically in Kent has been manufactured to some extent.
Yes, many Post Offices do have a problem surviving in the modern era, despite all the methods that have been devised to help enable them to be viable in the twenty-first century. Even so, a little “lateral thinking” could no doubt overcome the difficulties in many cases.
I have mentioned elsewhere on this site what we in my ward did when the City Way/Pattens Lane Post Office closed a few years ago, including the personal effort we put in to alleviate the difficulties then faced by our most vulnerable residents. Of course it should never have been necessary to do so, but we gladly did because we at least understood the effect to people on the ground.
There is far too much of this remote dictatorship approach from those who will never suffer any personal come-back as a result of their actions. They truly are in an “ivory tower” situation, and that is what is most wrong about all of this. If the decision-makers had to suffer the consequences of their own actions then I feel absolutely certain that they’d get their brains in gear and find a much better way to handle this.
Wouldn’t it be great if a formalised Constitution for Britain were to include something along those lines?