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Published: 4 April 2008

Don’t trust public assets to ‘free’ market

• THE recent collapse of the US bank Bear Stearns underlines the madness of handing our public services over to the whims of the “free” market.
New Labour’s obsession with profit-making has seen Labour MPs hypocritically trooping into the commons to vote for the closure of 2,500 local post offices.
The Post Office is a valuable public asset, just like our schools and hospitals. It provides services for the most vulnerable in our society, often those subsisting on a meagre state pension.
To stop the neo-liberal attacks of this Labour government we will need more than legal challenges. We need an alternative to the tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum and tweedle-dumber of the Labour, Tory and Liberal consensus.
London’s wealth should be used to benefit all Londoners, not just the super-rich. But we can’t rely on the current crop of politicians, we have to make that happen ourselves.
ROB JACKSON
Respect activist,
Tottenham Court Road, W1

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, West End Extra, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@westendextra.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Wednesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number.
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