Royal Mail to be privatised on orders of the EU

The British government have confirmed today that Royal Mail is to be privatised within the next few weeks.

The privatisation is required under the EU Postal Service Directive that effectively bans state-owned postal services.  It was this directive that opened up the postal service to competition, depriving the Royal Mail of the profitable business mail and leaving it with a virtual monopoly on the largely unprofitable residential mail which it is required to deliver by law.

Michael Fallon MP, Minister for Business and Enterprise, has reassured us that the universal postal service isn't at risk:

It is the law - it's an Act of Parliament that was passed two years ago and only Parliament could ever change that.

It was the law that the Royal Mail was publicly owned and Parliament has passed a law allowing it to be privatised in accordance with an EU directive.  It was also the law that the Royal Mail had a monopoly on postal services and Parliament has passed a law allowing companies to come in and cherry pick the profitable parts of  the postal service to compete against them. Parliament is quite happy to legislate against the interests of the Royal Mail on the instructions of the EU, why should an Act of Parliament reassure us?

'HOUSEHOLD BILLS RISING, POST OFFICES CLOSING DUE TO EUROPEAN UNION NOT WESTMINSTER', SAYS SUFFOLK PPC

At a series of public meetings in Suffolk during October and November, the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for South Suffolk and UKIP Deputy Leader David Campbell Bannerman, has pinpointed the European Union (EU) as the hidden reason for major cost rises in household energy bills and for Post Office closures.

Speaking at public meetings at Great Waldingham, Capel and East Bergholt in the South Suffolk constituency Mr Campbell Bannerman said:
"The British people are not being told the truth about the influence of the EU. The other 3 parties, the Lib Lab Con, try to hide the significance of EU laws, controls and funding costs on our daily lives. UKIP's job is to tell the truth about the massive control the EU has. In short, we are now being governed from Brussels not Britain."

"The EU is responsible for 120,000 directives and regulations, an avalanche of laws, which affect every area of our lives. 75% or more of the laws passed at Westminster now come from the EU, often without any genuine opportunity to stop or reform them. Membership of the EU costs £50 billion a year, including £10 billion this year net for EU funds out of our taxes. That could pay for an awful lot of hospitals, schools and transport spending in East Anglia."

"Take Energy for example, the EU´s panicky policies to close down coal and oil fired power stations, to fulfil their EU Directives, could mean the lights go off in Britain, and that British citizens are put in serious danger."

"Wind turbines are being massively subsidised - by around £1/2 million a year each turbine - but they only work 25% of the time, and need back up from conventional power stations."

"UKIP would abolish these dangerous EU emissions targets and build more nuclear plants and clean coal plants over time, so we don't have to rely on Putin's Russia or the volatile Middle East. But we can't do this in the EU. UKIP wants a free trading arrangement as the EU's single largest trading partner, which Norway and Switzerland have ( the two wealthiest nations per head in Europe ), but to withdraw from the emerging political state. UKIP wants super trade but not the superstate !"

"Meanwhile post offices are being closed due to EU intervention and EU rules. 2,500 post offices have to close because the EU does not allow Britain to spend British taxpayers' money on supporting British post offices. The EU has made it illegal under State Aid rules to subsidise the post office more than £150 million a year. These same EU rules forced the closure of Rover and the chaos over Northern Rock."

"Residents and businesses will soon have to drive long distances to big post offices, because the EU has devastated the rural post office network, including closing the post office at Acton, near Sudbury. The EU's 1997 and 2002 Directives are also destroying the Royal Mail, eliminating its monopoly from 2009, so that cherry picking rivals can cream off the profitable areas, but abandon the rural areas. The EU is doing to the Royal Mail and post offices what Beeching did to our railways."