Stop the Post Office Closures

Conservatives, locally and nationally, are campaigning to have the Government take more action to prevent the further closure of post offices across the Borough. Our Lib Dem MP has failed to stop the continuing closure of our Post Offices. When the Grove Post Office closed the Lib Dem’s claimed they were going to work towards opening a new one and nothing has happened.

Lib Dem’s say privatise the Post Offices

Conservatives have thrown their support behind a countrywide campaign to save the nation’s network of Post Offices, and David Cameron has promoted a special action plan designed to prevent further closures and cut backs. With hundreds of sub Post Offices threatened with cash curbs and closures, the Conservative Leader challenged Tony Blair to consider new ways of maintaining services including a plan for more local council work to be channelled through the Post Office network, which could help local authorities more effectively engage with local communities.

Your local Lib Dem’s want to privatise the Post Office service. David Cameron said: “We have developed, in partnership with our colleagues in local government, the idea of providing council services through ‘Council Counters’ in Post Offices.”

Council Counters would improve engagement with local residents; ensure that vulnerable people had access to vital service sand help to secure the long-term future of the Post Office network.

Grove Conservative Campaigner, Mike Burden, said: “Our Post Offices are vital and we should be doing all we can to help them, not flogging them off like the Lib Dem’s want us to do.”