So far 120 Labour MPs are lining up to vote against privatisation of the Royal Mail. It's not enough, but it's a start.
What I find frustrating is that we even have the possibility of a privatisation of a core public service. Particularly a privatisation caused by creating a "crisis" of profitability to justify it. They Royal Mail is only unprofitable becuase the governement created competition in the form of private companies, who pay lower salaries, provide worse working conditions, provide no final salary pension, and who have no controls on their investment decisions or prices. A rigged market in other words.
It was the same when the NHS contracted out its cleaning, with the result that less contract cleaners on poorer salaries and heavier workloads leave our hospitals dirty and full of MRSA and C-Diff. The only winners from that one were the cleaning company executives and the funeral directors. Not the hospitals or the patients (i.e. us), that's for sure.
Somehow I don't see privatisation of the Royal Mail going any differently, do you? Less posties, poorer pay and conditions for those that remain, worse service for customers if you can't afford the private companies' premiums to get the second class post service we got 15 years ago for a fraction of the current price. Rich executives with big bonuses though, I think we can be pretty sure of that.
by the way artificial "competition" was created to cause a crisis as the