The Prince of Darkness…..Peter Pan!

Well well, what do we have here?  Peter Mandelson announced today that Post Office part Privatisation will have to be delayed because…..there is not enough room on the Government’s bustling legislative agenda.  That has to be the best joke Mandy has told in a long time. I love he uses the word that the legislation is being ‘jostled’.

Is this the Palace of Westminster that sees debates curtailed and MP’s kicking around, bored, with the lightest legislative agenda for years?

Let’s be honest.  Brown doesn’t have the support to get this legislation through because it is DEEPLY unpopular amongst his Labour backbench MP’s.  Brown’s MP’s will not support it.  This legislation will not see the light of day as it is officially in the long grass.  The next legislation presented to Parliament regarding the Post Office will be by the Tories after the next election.  Labour have bottled it.

Full credit to David Cameron for offering to ‘help Mandy’ by giving up an Opposition debate day for the bill to get a 2nd reading in the House.  Obviously, Brown won’t go for this but Cameron makes his point well.

Mandy stated that the timing of a deal to to recruit a minority strategic partner from the private sector into the Royal Mail had been “inevitably” affected by the “terrible financial shock” that has hit the markets.  But he said the finances of the Royal Mail were approaching crisis point and the future of the UK’s delivery service depended on a turnaround in Royal Mail’s business.  To back this up he stated:  ”In principle we remain entirely committed to the proposals that were first put forward by an independent review,” Lord Mandelsonsaid.  “(Royal Mail workers) have a pension fund which is facing a deficit of something in the region of £7bn to £8bn.

 So, if the Royal Mail is in crisis, no investor wants to buy into it, then surely this must make the Royal Mail a priority issue?  This story is full of Labour lies, Mandelson spin….and it is a shame that our great posties are being hung out to dry.

I remember Gordon Brown saw Post Office Part Privatisation as a virility test on his leadership….hmmmm that means your failed the test Gordon!