Labour's Mandelson vows to crush postal unions

Where does the oxymoron in the title begin and where does it end?

Mandelson is, if nothing, an opportunist and an equal opportunity harrasser. He doesn't care if it's unions, just so long as it's not his 'special friends' like Russian oligarchs and his pork-trough hangers-on.

I really enjoyed the tone: "I'll shove it down your throats, so you better open up."

I love democracy.

I really hope that people will enjoy weekly home mail delivery because that's what the market will deem fair. No sense in giving the poor and infirm daily delivery to their door. How uppity can those people get?
Daily home delivery!? HA!

Our business friends know how to do postal service. They will pocket some lucre by selling off Royal Mail's assets, and then lose money because the government will put them back in the black, with the public's money anyway. Some of that same money will find its way into Labour's coffers, as a pay-off, completing the cycle. Oh, except for the cash that Mandy gives to his friends, as above.

Dismissed!
that means you and most of RM's employees.

Savings on ice

I've just realised the full weight of the tax-haven and the laws in the semi-British bailiwicks which surround this verdant fortress of rectitude. The Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey (home of the cow) do not have the same banking laws as the rest of the country. Thus, offshore banks can set up shop and if things go tits-up, as they did, the savings of British people are not protected. This allowed some of the Icelandic banks to 'take' the savings of families, organisations, municipal governments, etc.
It is fitting for a government that presents itself [or at least did until recently if the law has changed] as 'the City', where rich Germans could hide their money from their own government. So, tax-haven Britain has no moral leg to stand on in this case. Iceland is not a tax haven, as far as I can tell. How can the UK petition the government of Iceland for those deposits when their whole country is bankrupt, and when their banks did nothing illegal? They just lost all of their deposits because they followed the laws of international banking, i.e. grab the lucre and run. Britain cannot complain about that either, for obvious reasons of authorship. If Iceland pays up on behalf of its '25 crazy bankers' then it will be branded as a haven for stupid politicians. The IMF will instantly set up a torture chamber there
-Costick67 ( 8^P