Comments on: Stupid, Hypocritical and Insensitive http://www.platform10.org/2009/10/stupid-hypocritical-and-insensitive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stupid-hypocritical-and-insensitive Campaigning for a modern liberal Conservative Party Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:28:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Frugal Dougal http://www.platform10.org/2009/10/stupid-hypocritical-and-insensitive/comment-page-1/#comment-23267 Frugal Dougal Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:11:10 +0000 http://www.platform10.org//?p=740#comment-23267 Excellent piece, which for me is summarised by the last paragraph. One thing the CWU says that rings true is that Lord Mandelsohn is acting against them in private: he wants to privatise the Post Office - which we saw as a privatisation too far last time - but wants to maneouvre the CWU into making the privatisation inevitable so the Labour Party can protest that it had no choice. Excellent piece, which for me is summarised by the last paragraph. One thing the CWU says that rings true is that Lord Mandelsohn is acting against them in private: he wants to privatise the Post Office – which we saw as a privatisation too far last time – but wants to maneouvre the CWU into making the privatisation inevitable so the Labour Party can protest that it had no choice.

]]> By: David Skelton http://www.platform10.org/2009/10/stupid-hypocritical-and-insensitive/comment-page-1/#comment-23265 David Skelton Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:00:13 +0000 http://www.platform10.org//?p=740#comment-23265 Anthony - good piece. I have to say that both sides have played this entire dispute incredibly badly. Crozier and the management have been increasingly antagonistic over the past year and have completely failed to consult the trade unions over modernisation plans. The CWU have embarked on a strike that is sure to uickly lose public sympathy in the run up to Christmas and might do extreme damage to Royal Mail's future prospects with, as you say, the loss of some major contracts. And contracts lost are not easy to regain. Quite why Mandelson and Brown have utterly failed to do ANYTHING to prevent this dispute and its knock on consequences is probably the big question about this dispute. Anthony – good piece. I have to say that both sides have played this entire dispute incredibly badly. Crozier and the management have been increasingly antagonistic over the past year and have completely failed to consult the trade unions over modernisation plans. The CWU have embarked on a strike that is sure to uickly lose public sympathy in the run up to Christmas and might do extreme damage to Royal Mail’s future prospects with, as you say, the loss of some major contracts. And contracts lost are not easy to regain.

Quite why Mandelson and Brown have utterly failed to do ANYTHING to prevent this dispute and its knock on consequences is probably the big question about this dispute.

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