Jim Hood MP (Lanark & Hamilton East) signed up to the Labour rebel Early Day Motion 428 last week and called on the Government to drop their proposals to sell off part of Royal Mail to the private sector. Speaking after attending the Labour conference in Dundee last weekend, Mr. Hood said:
“My opposition to the current proposals are not about ideology, it is more to do with what is not being said as opposed to what is being said by Royal Mail. Regardless of government assurances to the contrary, Royal Mail senior management are hell-bent on privatisation and see the proposed 30% sell off as a road map to 100% privatisation.
The attempts to demonise postal workers as luddites, who are resistant to the much needed modernisation and reform of postal services is offensive, unfair and just not true. 25 years ago the miners and their union were similarly demonised and the Royal Mail management must not be allowed to do that to postal workers. The Royal Mail Management Board are at best mediocre and at worse crassly incompetent. It is not rocket science to know that if the team is being wrongly managed, taken in a wrong direction and not getting the desired results, you sack the manager, not the players.”