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Off to the Mountains
By Andy | May 6, 2009
I’m off to the Highlands for a bit of backpacking. Thankfully, I’ll be spared the next set of disasters as news availability will be a bit limited.
But what is it about the Kamikaze tendencies of this government?
I’m referring to the Post Office/Royal Mail chaos. For my money Compass have set out forward a sensible way forward. Their reward was to get an immediate rebuttal from NO.10. As Minsters refer to No. 10’s comments we can only assume they come from Brown himself.
Compass’ ideas we are told are simply a political fix. They do not address business issues!
Of course they do. I believe that the Royal Mail is profitable at the moment after the pension fund liabilities are removed. Remember, the government will take off the pension liabilities before any private finance is sough. If they didn’t nobody would take it of us. So, if government are having to act in this way then the creation of a new mutual is definitely possible.
Brown is fond of referring to the great traditions of the left. He praises mutuality. But why does he think these are only relevant to the past? Can he not see that mutuality could have a great future?
Instead we are bombarded with empty statements from anonymous Enterprise and Business Ministers who all come from the private sector.
The establishment has failed us all and failed us all badly. It is time to be creative and to embrace new options, including those offered by modern systems of mutuality.
If I was a rebel I’d listen to those pronouncements on this issue and then feel fortified enough to kick Brown in the goolies again. This kind of reaction is almost guaranteed at the moment.
I’m hoping — on my return )— that Brown has got over his masochistic tendencies.
Topics: Ramblings |
May 6th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Absolutely spot on Andy! About Royal mail I mean. And it seems today Jacqui Smith has decided her last hurrah will be the £5 billion ID card scheme.
It seems to me an exact reply of the last months of the Major government. remember the British Rail privatisation/ The public were against it, the opposition were against it (then) and even major’s own MPs were against it, but he decided to press on, like a sort of defiant gesture prior to the death agony.
I would stay up the mountain and you might avoid the leadership election - even Brown’s own advisers seem to be against him now. Who on earth persuaded Gordon to be photographed with a swastika backdrop yesterday? I wonder who will play Eva Braun (Blears or Flint?)
Have a nice holiday.