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Peter Black and South Wales West Liberal DemocratsRepresenting Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot, and Swansea |
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Candidate hands in Post Office petition
March 19, 2007 6:37 AM
Welsh Liberal Democrat Councillor for Dunvant and Gower Assembly candidate Nick Tregoning has handed in petition forms from local people with over 4000 signatures opposing the closure of our Post Offices to Liberal Democrat Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary Susan Kramer. They will be added to the many thousands from up and down Wales and the rest of the UK which Mrs Kramer will be handing into the Government.
The decision by the Government to close a further 2500 branches will mean many more communities will be without a Post Office.
"The large number of signatures we have managed to collect so far shows the strength of feeling about what the Government is proposing for the Post Office network," said Nick. "It's all very well for Labour's Alistair Darling to bang on about cutting 'uneconomic' post offices, but we all remember the cynical way that Labour has acted over the last few years to help bring that about. Scrapping the pension book; trying to bully those on benefits to take out basic bank accounts; scrapping the present Post Office Current Account; removing passport checking; stopping TV licence stamps and so on."
"Since 1999, we've lost twenty-two post offices in Swansea, 8 of them in Gower alone. There are those locally who rubbish any attempt to change the government's mind. Unlike them, I do not feel that campaigning is a waste of time, and neither do those who signed our petition. That is why we will keep on going, and keep on collecting signatures."
"It appears Labour has decided that the only measure which really matters is money. Like the Conservatives before them, they know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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