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Rural Post Offices face death knell
BillieTheBot
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Firstly the Government is withdrawing the invaluable Post Office account system for benefits and pensions payments, meaning that everyone will be forced to take out a bank account with one of the thieving immoral banking corporations. Anyone would think the Government wanted people to owe more and more money to the inherently immoral banks, banks that hound people to death over trifling debts.
Secondly the Government is removing the £150m rural subsisdy from 2008, allowing over 6,000 important rural village links to wither and die. That's 6000 villages that will lose their last shop, the last thing that binds the community together.
Thirdly, the BBC now refuses to sell TV Licenses through the Post Office, forcing people to pay the thieving BBC tax through a direct debit system that means the BBC gets to have its cake and eat it.
The Prime Minister's response? Let them die.
It goes to show what New Labour really think of the rural people, especially the rural poor and housebound. Rural people don't tend to vote Labour, so screw them, they don't count. It's no wonder rural people don't vote Labour when you have filth like this running the party. It's no wonder rural life in this country is on its knees, with the line drawn between those too poor to leave their house, and the Southern rich who only live there five weekends a year.
As for the BBC, well, it should be ashamed of itself for this. So much for "protecting the nation", as the pro-BBC tax spiel goes, as the BBC allows 6000 rural villages to lose their last shop. If the BBC isn't going to protect the nation's heritage then its entire purpose is gone, and it should be sold off and closed down, the proceeds going on rural development aid.
Secondly the Government is removing the £150m rural subsisdy from 2008, allowing over 6,000 important rural village links to wither and die. That's 6000 villages that will lose their last shop, the last thing that binds the community together.
Thirdly, the BBC now refuses to sell TV Licenses through the Post Office, forcing people to pay the thieving BBC tax through a direct debit system that means the BBC gets to have its cake and eat it.
The Prime Minister's response? Let them die.
It goes to show what New Labour really think of the rural people, especially the rural poor and housebound. Rural people don't tend to vote Labour, so screw them, they don't count. It's no wonder rural people don't vote Labour when you have filth like this running the party. It's no wonder rural life in this country is on its knees, with the line drawn between those too poor to leave their house, and the Southern rich who only live there five weekends a year.
As for the BBC, well, it should be ashamed of itself for this. So much for "protecting the nation", as the pro-BBC tax spiel goes, as the BBC allows 6000 rural villages to lose their last shop. If the BBC isn't going to protect the nation's heritage then its entire purpose is gone, and it should be sold off and closed down, the proceeds going on rural development aid.
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Doesn't make it right by any means but you shouldn't link it only to rural areas.
MoK is also right is saying that the rural post office is more than just a post office. Like the local point, they are the community centres of the countryside; mainstays of the community and things that a lot of people in rural England cannot do without. Is Labour trying to fuck things up as much as possible since they know that they are going to lose the next election? Have they realised that they have made such alarmingly stupid errors and, rather than trying to patch them up in order to stay in power, thinking: fuck it, let's enjoy our time in power and fuck on as many people as possible who don't vote for us? God only knows.
New Labour is a bunch of arses. Post Offices are the central point of many villages.
true to an extent, but the one I grew up in it was the pub and the church and the post office third.
the thing I don't get is that we had a massive campaign to stop our sub-post office closing just recently (I live on the edge of a city) and it reopened, but the serving staff as so miserable (don't say thank you and so on), that sometimes I think stuff it, I'll walk the 2 miles extra to the main one and at least be treated like a valued customer.
on the news (R4 Today) this morning they were going on about how each transaction costs a pound at the post offfice, whereas it costs a penny at the bank, does the post office service represent 99p extra value?
Seems an efficient way to control.
Where GWST is from the nearest post office is about three miles from her house, but the nearest bank is in Carlisle, which is a 25-mile round trip. With one bus a week.
Either just let it run as a private company (post offices closed, prices increased) or actually run it as a public service - which it clearly is.
I personally think this is yet another example of New Labours "Fuck 'em!" Attitude and i dont like it one bit!
Wonder what you're supposed to do if your credit's too bad to have a direct debit enabled bank account...
It should just be run as a public service.
You can now get your TV licence through all the Pay Point places, and there are about ten times as many of them as there are post offices.
Labour government seem to like making people redundant.
I remember when the Post Office shop closed in my village (I live in the highest village in Wales, Bwlchgwyn), although it wasn't because of the government, I don't believe. Anyway, as anybody who comes from a rural area will tell you, the public transport is usually appauling and infrequent and expensive and this will cause problems for people who have to commute to their local town (sometimes it's miles away) just to post a parcel.
There was this old gentleman in my village who used to have to go to Coedpoeth (the next village) to get to the post office and he used to walk (maybe he couldn't afford the transport?). He'd leave in the afternoon and bring a torch when it was winter for when he returned.
I think that the elderly are going to be hit by this worse than any other group. A lot of them are on only basic pensions anyway and won't be able to always afford the bus to go shopping, especially the ones who find walking and carrying bags difficult. During the winter a lot of elderly people (and many family households) face fuel poverty... That is they pay more than 10% of their income on keeping the temperature in their house adequetly warm (around 21 degrees celcius). I mean if you're spending so much on keeping yourself warm and fed, how can you afford an extra two pounds for a bus?
This will also affect low income families who are struggling already...
Does that mean you could get a license paying around a tenner a month than just all in one go? Maybe that'd be better for us students at least...
I still don't understand why the BBC are refusing to sell TV licenses in the Post Office.
And by the way, not all banks are that unethical, think of Triodos and the Co-op.
The Co-Op stole £900 in illegal charges from us over the last four years...
All the Co-Op's ethical code means is that they don't take business from, or invest in, Christian nutjobs and arms firms.