The queues snaking out of Witney post office must be the envy of every shop in town.
Many Witney shops have closed for want of the very customers the post office no longer wishes to serve.
Lots of customers means lots of costs and the post office must reduce its costs to make itself attractive to private sector buyers. This is the sort of ‘Mad Hatter’ management the current Government takes seriously.
Not that reason rallies Brenda Churchill (the very embodiment of coalition government) and David Cameron to the cause of saving Witney Post Office (February 13). Naked Nimbyism does that. When policy concocted at national level looks absurd at local level, perhaps it actually is absurd. The lesson might be to work the other way round: see what people want locally and then try to deliver this nationally.
The concept may be old-fashioned but government really should be accountable to the people (the people in the post office queue, if you like) rather than to big business.
STUART MACDONALD Green Party West End Witney
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