mcboo - Member
Mandelson dropped the sell-off because there was no way a wounded Brown government could get it past the Labour backbenchers. Don't think there is much more to it than that.
You don't think there is much more to it than that ? Well there is more to it than that mate.
Lord Mandelson could easily count on the full support of Conservative MPs for his plans to sell off the most profitable bits of Royal Mail to the Dutch. Even if there had been a significant backbench revolt, the numbers were hugely stacked in Lord Mandelson's favour ..... but public opinion wasn't.
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aracer - Member
Who's we (as in "we should be doing")?
It's "we", as in "we as a society" should be saving jobs whilst the country is in the depths of a recession.
Would you have preferred if I had said 'the government and the unions' should be saving jobs whilst the country is in the depths of a recession ?
I have to say aracer, I'm surprised and slightly disappointed, that appears to be the best you could pull me up on. I would have expected better from you 
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iDave - Member
they don't give a flying shite about the problems they're causing for small businesses and the public
Actually imo it is precisely because the CWU is so obsessed with not causing too much inconvenience to small businesses and the public, that this dispute has dragged on for so long.
If the CWU hadn't pussyfooted around with pointless and totally ineffective one day strikes, and had instead, called for a national strike and clearly stated there would be no return to work until the dispute was resolved, then this dispute would have been resolved a very long time ago. In fact quite probably, within 3 or 4 days of it being called.
In reality the threat of an all out indefinite strike, would have quite likely made the need to actually go on strike unnecessary.
Unfortunately British trade unions these days have no bottle, and the government knows it........... a French communication union would have quickly resolved this dispute.
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BTW mcboo, I am not a postman. Evidently you appear to assume that I am one, which betrays the fact that you presumably normally only associate with people who are short-sighted, gullible, and selfish.
I support the postal workers because I fully realise that they are fighting to defend my postal service, because I don't believe the lies told to me by Peter Mandelson and New Labour, and because I am happy to support others who are fighting to defend their industries and their jobs ......... despite the fact that it might not affect me directly.
