Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "some post office u0026 royal mail testimony" video.

  1. If any company MUST be re-nationalised, it IS THE POST OFFICE. The current arrangement is the same as nationalisation anyway, in terms of financing, but the, “privatisation,” aspect has afforded these government jobsworths all the protections of legally protected cloaks and daggers, which are finally being exposed. The British people are entitled full accountability and to get their money’s worth from an organisation that THEY OWN and upon which THEY RELY! The existing system has FAILED in every important respect and every measurable metric. The competition has outstripped them on reliability and public confidence; major businesses (such as Amazon and Argos) do not use them for the above stated reason; the left hand clearly doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, showing a fundamental breakdown in organisation, as so clearly illustrated by the excerpts you played us; and countless lives have been destroyed by what was a flat out culture of denial around the Fujitsu Scandal, AT BEST, and systematic conspiracy of silence and criminal profiteering at worst (we still do not know!). Obviously, the people put in charge were incapable of fulfilling their remit, yet they were ostentatiously rewarded for many years of abject failure in a culture with ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY! “Culpable Negligence,” doesn’t even cover it! These people belong behind bars, not getting gongs from his majesty! And the public deserves an open service, fully accountable to them at every level, since they are PAYING for it!
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  2. It’s like listening to the testimony of an alcoholic who has just been hauled out of the gutter directly after their latest binge. In the manner of an alcoholic, these people simply, flatly refuse to acknowledge that there even is a problem, let alone ANY possibility of a remedy. You cannot solve a problem unless you admit it EXISTS. And therein lies the issue. These people have remained steadfast in denial, while the Post Office has run itself into the ground, letting down its customers, actively promoting competition and destroying the lives of their best staff in the process. Now, call me paranoid if you wish but, when I see government hacks being given a gong for actively destroying a British institution, I can only conclude that this was their goal from the outset. There are countless delivery services in Britain now. Every time I receive a parcel or piece of mail I seem to get an email from some new company I’d never heard of before, asking me to, “give feedback,” on the quality of their service. I would bet real money that some senior Tory policy makers are also accepting large, “donations,” from the owners of Evri and Lord knows what other fleet of foot delivery services that have been capitalising on the decline of our standard Royal Mail.
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