Select Committee Questions Postal Sale

The CWU campaign to keep the post public took an important step earlier this month - with the cross party Business and Enterprise Select Committee calling out the Government's claims that privatisation is the best way to protect the Royal Mail's future.

And the Committee's conclusions were right - involving a private company in a so-called partnership isn't "necessary or desirable." The Committee, made up of expert MPs of all parties in the House of Commons, set out five crucial questions that the Government has failed to answer.

I'd like you to ask your MPs these questions - and then ask them to sign our EDM if they can't come up with decent answers. Write to your MP now - click the pic above!

The 5 questions are -

• What is the justification for the size of the partnership? Thirty per cent was the figure cited by Lord Mandelson at second reading, but why?
• How much openness there will be about the partnership agreement which will set out the partner's rights and any arrangements between the parties about sale of the partner's stake?
• What is the detailed rationale for dividing Post Office Ltd from Royal Mail Group?
• What will be the effect on competition if, as seems very likely, the chosen partner is already active in the UK mail market?
• What will happen if Royal Mail needs further capital injections?

These seem like sensible questions. But the Government doesn't have the answers - their plan to privatise our post is unnecessary and undesirable.

Write to your MP and ask these questions now - 

http://post.cwu.org/fivequestions

We know that the Royal Mail faces some big challenges but privatisation is not the solution. Why hasn't the government considered modernising the Mail as a public service?

We've set up a tool to easily let you ask your MP these questions - it'll take you a couple of minutes in total but it will have an important impact on someone who can stop privatisation in its tracks - your MP.

177 MPs have already signed the Early Day Motion condemning the privatisation - will your letter help us get the 178th MP to support our campaign?

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