LOBBY YOUR MP, KEEP ROYAL MAIL IN PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
by Neal Lawson of Compass.
Lobby your MP now to support EDM 428 ‘ROYAL MAIL’ calling on government to abandon privatisation plans
Following media reports over the Christmas/New Year period of our forthcoming campaign on the Post Office and Royal Mail, we’re today asking for your urgent help to get MPs to support EDM 428.
We must urgently help the government to think again its proposals for privatisation of post services. Compass strongly rejects the idea that our post service should be privatised. Instead of selling off this national asset we’d like to see the service invested in and modernised to ensure it’s responsive to people’s needs in the 21st century and remains a universal service that is publicly owned. In essence we believe in modernisation not marketisation.
This is the Compass New Year campaign priority. Over 70 Labour MPs have already signed EDM 428 in less than 24 hours – but we need 100s of MPs to support this – you can help by taking action and lobbying your MP today.
Let’s not see our post services privatised and then 5 or 10 years down the line find ourselves campaigning for a tax on the windfall profits of privatised post service companies, in the same way we’ve had to with privatised energy companies. That is exactly what could happen if we just sit back and do nothing. Let’s not allow a Labour Government to make the same mistakes and be deluded by the so-called benefits of privatisation.
Now is the time to take action, email or call your MP and urge them to sign up to EDM 428:
- Download the template message to MPs
- Download 10 important facts about the Royal Mail
- Read EDM 428 in full
In the coming weeks we’ll be coming out with our own proposals and positive vision for a modern post service (to include ideas such as a People’s Bank) that remains in public hands - keep an eye out for further updates and email actions on this important campaign.
Lobby your MP now and let’s campaign for a modern post service that remains in public hands!
Thanks as always for all your amazing work.
