What would Keir Hardie say to Gordon Brown?

Latest buzz - in the hope of saving the Glenrothes by-election for Gordon Brown, and keeping him riding high in the after-glow of spending millions of our money on his Bailout scheme. The sickening news from The National Federation of Sub-Post Officers, is that they expect to lose the Post Office Card Account contract.

They claim the loss of this contract will make thousands of Post Offices so unprofitable that they will have no option but to close. At the cost of uncountable number of pounds, this contract was set up by HMG to compensate stopping the Post Office paying benefits over the counter.

Not being a psychiatrist I find it very difficult to understand the working of our politician's mind. Example: To halt the expense of over the counter payment of benefits HMG (at huge cost) put a contract in place with the Post Office to facilitate these payment, at the same time to save even more money, they shut another 2500 Post Offices.

The strong rumour that this contract is now to be cancelled which will mean that only major towns in the UK, will have a Post Office. It will be impossible to calculate the misery and hardship this will cause our pensioners.

I am told by the anti Europe people that the orders to close all the Post Offices in the UK came from Brussels. I thought that The Labour Party and New Labour were invented to help the poor, the starving, and the weak; I wonder where it all went wrong?

I don't think our Prime Minister will be receiving many Christmas cards from our pensioners this year!