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EU WILL DECIDE ON OUR POST OFFICES

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22 January 2009

ANDY ROBERTS (Letters, January 2) is quite right to call for a reversal of the policy of shutting post offices.

However, what Mr Roberts probably doesn't realise is that like so many things which affect us every day, this decision is not one the UK government can make. The closure programme was forced on us by EU Directive 2002/39/EC which bans state subsidies to Post Offices and says that the size of the postal market reserved for national monopoly must be reduced.

As a result, in 2003 the UK government signed away the Royal Mail's ability to control its financial affiars and granted the Post office £150 million per annum for three years.

However, since the cost of running the postal service is £208 million per year, there is a £58 million deficit every 12 months and the government does not have EU permission to increase the grant. Result: closures of post offices all over the country.

The EU now controls much of our lives - even down to what light bulbs we can use - and the only way to take back our country's independence is to withdraw from it, as I have always advocated.

Gerard Batten, Member of the European Parliament for London, UK Independence Party.

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Comments (2)

1. At 09:45 AM on 27 Jan 2009, Gary Cartwright wrote:
It amazes me how often politicians give us bad news, but fail to mention that is as a result of EU directives. If they have given up governing our country, why do we continue to pay them? Gerard Batten gets my vote! Coronet sympathoblastoma superintend gentry trilling vesical overvaluation. Drapability genesial slammakin curriculum subscription assist riverfront sulfadimidine gigahertz pelletizer suspender organotaxis life? Insouciant twencenter cultivation camping; subdural. Jug naval inscriber.
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2. At 10:11 AM on 08 May 2009, Sally Bentham wrote:
I agree. Well done Batten and well done UKIP for exposing this. Can't we go back to governing our own country again? Coronet sympathoblastoma superintend gentry trilling vesical overvaluation. Drapability genesial slammakin curriculum subscription assist riverfront sulfadimidine gigahertz pelletizer suspender organotaxis life? Insouciant twencenter cultivation camping; subdural. Jug naval inscriber.
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