West End Extra - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Published: 4 April 2008
Don’t trust public assets to ‘free’ market • THE recent collapse of the US bank Bear Stearns underlines the madness of handing our public services over to the whims of the “free” market. New Labour’s obsession with profit-making has seen Labour MPs hypocritically trooping into the commons to vote for the closure of 2,500 local post offices.
The Post Office is a valuable public asset, just like our schools and hospitals. It provides services for the most vulnerable in our society, often those subsisting on a meagre state pension.
To stop the neo-liberal attacks of this Labour government we will need more than legal challenges. We need an alternative to the tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum and tweedle-dumber of the Labour, Tory and Liberal consensus.
London’s wealth should be used to benefit all Londoners, not just the super-rich. But we can’t rely on the current crop of politicians, we have to make that happen ourselves. ROB JACKSON
Respect activist,
Tottenham Court Road, W1
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