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'Let councils run post offices' - MP
WELSH Secretary Paul Murphy threw his weight behind a move to save Gwent's threatened post offices by getting councils involved in running them.
He told Welsh MPs that he favoured any moves to try to preserve local post offices in "One Stop shops," for local services.
Mr Murphy, MP for Torfaen, backed Islwyn MP Don Touhig who has written to the Welsh Local Government Association urging it to intervene on behalf of councils to see whether any of the post offices now threatened with closure can be saved.
Mr Touhig intervened during a Welsh Grand Committee debate at Westminster yesterday to inform the minister of his initiative and urged him to support it.
Mr Murphy told Mr Touhig: "Yes. I think the idea of a One Stop Shop for local services including the post office is a good idea."
Afterwards Mr Touhig welcomed the minister's support.
He said the minister had called for One Stop Shops for local services.
"It would be a good idea to see if these can be located in post offices.
"Nothing should be ruled in or out."
Mr Touhig's move follows last week's Labour back bench revolt over the Post Office closure programme.
Paul Flynn, the Labour MP for Newport West, voted against the government last week on a Conservative bid to halt the closure programme.
Earlier this month, the Post Office announced it would press ahead with the closure of 19 Gwent offices, three more were the subject of further consultation with Postwatch and two were saved.
8:25pm Wednesday 26th March 2008
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CommentPosted by: papercutz, cwmbran on 9:56pm Wed 26 Mar 08
The council!!! They can't even run their own offices
The council!!! They can't even run their own offices
Posted by: Ant, Newport on 10:06pm Wed 26 Mar 08
and who's going to subsidise the running of them? The poor old Council tax payer I suspect.
and who's going to subsidise the running of them? The poor old Council tax payer I suspect.
Posted by: bonny, pontypool on 10:21pm Wed 26 Mar 08
M.P.Paul Murphy voted to close the post offices. What planet is he on its not planet earth.
M.P.Paul Murphy voted to close the post offices. What planet is he on its not planet earth.
Posted by: tim, Magor on 10:25pm Wed 26 Mar 08
Times have changed most services from a Post office can be done online or over the phone,I have not been in one for years.Councils should stick to the basics and not expand into loss making ventures because the taxpayer will end up footing the bill.Are they going to run loss making pubs as well? I think not!
Times have changed most services from a Post office can be done online or over the phone,I have not been in one for years.Councils should stick to the basics and not expand into loss making ventures because the taxpayer will end up footing the bill.Are they going to run loss making pubs as well? I think not!
Posted by: Grumpy Old Man, The Gaer on 11:56pm Wed 26 Mar 08
This is a complete nonsense.
Council officers & members do not have the commercial nous to run a business.
The bus service is a case in point - buses in Newport are independent, bar ownership, and housing is about to follow.
I believe education will be the next service to be "privatised" and with the total blessing of WAG.
This is a complete nonsense.
Council officers & members do not have the commercial nous to run a business.
The bus service is a case in point - buses in Newport are independent, bar ownership, and housing is about to follow.
I believe education will be the next service to be "privatised" and with the total blessing of WAG.
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