‘It’s the wilful destruction of another much-loved British institution. The privatisation of the Royal Mail, the British postal service, brings to an end nearly five hundred years of history- stretching back the days of King Henry VIII.
By privatising the Royal Mail, our coalition government has shown that it does not care a jot for our national heritage, or the devastating impact the sell-off will have on remote rural communities, or how the elderly and the poor will be disproportionately affected. They have shown us that all they care about is rewarding their wealthy backers in the City of London and keeping in with the giants of global capitalism.
Even Mrs Thatcher, the Prime Minister who started the privatisation process in Britain in 1979 thought that selling the Royal Mail was a step too far. However the current UK government with its fanatical commitment to neo-liberalism is determined to take us to dark, scary places that even the Iron Lady shied away from.’
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