Tim Almond

PM Challenged Over Post Offices

Conservative leader David Cameron has challenged the prime minister to do more to protect post offices.

I spent my youth opposing the Conservatives. I believed in all that tax-and-spend stuff.

Over many years of my life, I made the philosophical leap towards a small government view and the power of the free market. And so allying myself with the Conservatives made sense.

So, I’m really pissed off that not only does David Cameron want to support the NHS, but now wants to "protect post offices". 800 of these have 16 customers per week. We don’t need rural post offices that get a subsidy for 16 customers (which using the number sounds to me like £20K of subsidy).

It is retrogressive to believe that people somehow deserve what they’ve always had. The car has changed village life. People don’t need shops in the village, because the villagers have cars and can get to the town. Why do post offices deserve to get funded by the vast majority who aren’t using them?

Frankly, I’m pretty close to the edge on this thing now. 

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