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Why is Mandelson trying to push for Royal Mail privatisation?

April 21, 2009 – 7:50 pm

According to the Independent (21 April), Gordon Brown faces growing pressure from mutinous Labour backbenchers to ditch or delay moves to partly privatise Royal Mail. Party whips have warned the prime minister, who is already dealing with the ’smeargate’ scandal, that the plans have stretched the loyalty of his MPs to breaking point.
‘Lord’ Peter Mandelson, [...]

By John Kelly | Posted in Finance, Policy, Political spin, UK politics, privatisation | Also tagged 147 Labour MPs have signed a Commons motion condemning plans to sell the Royal Mail, Adam Crozier, Alan leighton, Compass Think Tank, DHL, Gordon Brown, John J Kelly, Mandelson, post Office part-privatisation, Private Eye, TNT accused Royal Mail of illegal subsidies, TNT alleged tax fraud, TNT object to German minimum wage | Comments (5)

I know nothing at first hand about Gaza so I should stop commenting . . . . . . .

January 8, 2009 – 9:56 am

. . .and it would be a good idea if other people did the same. However, I do know a bit about media. It is pointless of Israel to complain about the possible bias of quoted ’sources in Gaza’ from the world’s news gatherers if they employ totalitarian tactics (selectively used by the US in [...]

By John Kelly | Posted in Genocide, Global security, Human rights, Insurgency, International Affairs, Intifada, Israel, Law and order, Middle East, Palestine, Political spin, Totalitarian drift, United Nations, War on Terror, carpet bombing, ethnic cleansing, gaza | Also tagged "We don't do subtle" should be the Mossad strapline., Afghanistan, Al Jazeera, BBC, Censorship, Daily Mail, Hamas, Hizbollah, Israel, Jews, Media, Palestine, US | Comments (0)