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Labour Let Down Residents Over Post Office Closures
Salford Labour have embarked on something of a face-saving exercise with regard to these closures. I don’t doubt their sincerity in wanting the threatened branches to stay open, but as they don’t want to embarrass the Government they’ve opted for hand-wringing words over actual action.
The Government’s figure of 2500 Post Office closures is set in stone. The only argument is over which Post Offices close. Labour Councillors can (and did) make impassioned pleas about the importance of these particular Post Offices, but they also knew damned well that it wouldn’t make the slightest jot of difference. Keeping Langworthy open would only mean putting Lower Kersal under threat, saving Patricroft would have left Peel Green vulnerable, and so on. As for expecting the Post Office to close branches in all the neighbouring boroughs but leaving Salford unscathed… highly unlikely.
The only guaranteed way to save our local Post Offices is to persuade the Government to suspend their closure programme. Conservative MPs in Parliament asked the Government to do this and they refused – all our three Salford Labour MPs voted to keep closing Post Offices. At last month’s Council Meeting I asked the Labour Council to lobby the Government to suspend the closure programme – and every single Labour Councillor stuck their head in the sand and said no.
It gave me no pleasure at all to read this morning that following Salford Labour’s hand-wringing, all three threatened Post Offices have missed their chance of a reprieve and will be closing as planned. This is a huge blow for local residents in the affected areas – they have been badly let down by the local Labour Party who have chosen empty words over action.
The reason that these three Post Offices are closing is because the Government has embarked on a huge closure programme, and our Labour Council (and other Labour Councils like them) have refused to stand up and take the Government on.