Royal Mail - Is there an alternative?

Mandy is now in for a proper fight over the Royal Mail part privatisation now that Jim McGovern (who you ask!!) has resigned as a PPS. No doubt the CWU will be up in arms and there will be strikes galore, but what ultimately is going to change if the left of the party has its way. The Royal Mail will remain a business with the mother of all pension problems and another, perhaps less sympathetic generation of politicians will have to deal with the problem.

I consider myself to be to the left of the current government but on this occasion I think we have no options left but to consider part privatisation as a way to secure the future of the Royal Mail. But lets make sure its on a fair basis for the tax payer and the consumer not like the Rail and Utility privatisations of the 1980s and 1990s.