Myfanwy calls on Nia Griffith to protect Royal Mail

Plaid Cymru Llanelli
Ty Bres,
Heol Bres
Llanelli
SA15 1UH
July 2nd, 2009

Nia Griffith MP
6 Queen Victoria Road
Llanelli
SA15 2TL

Dear Ms Griffith,

I enclose a letter sent to you on June 2nd and note that I have not yet received any response to this from your office.

I had asked you to oppose plans to privatise our Royal Mail to protect jobs and to preserve the level of service we expect and need. As you will know your colleague Lord Mandelson has now admitted that the UK Government will not push through legislation to part-privatise the Royal Mail in the near future because no buyer could be found.

It is also very clear that among your more outspoken colleagues this is an unpopular measure and failing to get the bill passed would be an embarrassment for the Government.

While the climb-down is welcome, it not good enough for the plans to be shelved so that they can be resurrected when a buyer is found or when the Labour whips think they can win the debate. Not even the Tories dreamed of privatising the Royal Mail and you must know that job losses will follow from this move and that there can be no justification for supporting a measure that puts more jobs in Llanelli at risk.

I urge you to pledge publicly to people in Llanelli that you will vote against these reckless measures when they come up for debate.

Yours faithfully,

Myfanwy Davies