Letter from Roger Gale MP
Further to your letter the following press release
relates.
Minnis Bay (particularly) is a self-contained
community of a significant number of mainly elderly people. The
nearest other post office is a mile away in the village centre
up a long gradient. Public Transport is poor, the footpath in
places dangerous and many do not drive cars. All of this was pointed
out to the Post Office in many letters, through a petition to
Parliament and at a meeting with the Leader and Chief Executive
of Thanet Council and myself. So far as I can see the decision
was pre-determined and no attention whatsoever has been paid to
the strength of public concern. "Arrogant determination to
blunder on and hit the closure targets" is the phrase that
springs to mind!
I understand that you cannot entertain specific
cases but if the process is, at the end of the day, a charade
then why bother with it at all.
I am sure that it is entirely coincidental that
the Post Office has decided to reprieve the Cliffs End Post Office
(another very worthy case) in the South Thanet constituency represented
by a vice-chairman of the government party defending a very slender
majority! (I trust that Laura Sandys will take the due credit
for a lot of hard work).
6 December 2007
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