I went to ASDA today and saw one of the reasons for the demise of our communities.
I always buy my meat ,fish and most of my veg locally to help local specialist shops (where the food is better in any case)and visit ASDA for the non specialist items.
Coming out I noticed queues waiting for the Post Office there. This I think is one of the reasons for the demise of local Post Offices, the supermarkets are taking over making the local post offices uneconomical.
The slight convenience of using the office at supermarkets carries a cost in community life. People wanting to visit their local post office to post a parcel will find in the future they have to visit a large supermarket often several miles away at the cost of convenience and traffic increase.
I think there is a hidden agenda here. They have shown that they encourage foreign firms to cherry pick the best postal business and are all to willing to encourage post offices to close. The major parties receive donations from the supermarkets and are thus prepared for the smaller businesses go to the wall with all the disadvantage that entails for communities. They can then get on with road pricing, which is another tax as people will have to travel to visit a post office.
The government has too cosy a relationship with big business when it should be thinking of what the people want.
What they do not want is for local businesses to close, communities to die and big business to control everything, but when did they ever listen to the people?
As Peter Mandelson said "I SEE NOTHING WRONG IN SOME PEOPLE BECOMING FILTHY RICH".
Says it all doesn't it?
