Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-09-09-Speech-4-062"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Brian Simpson2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I think the fact that you have had a lot of people willing to participate in the catch-the-eye debate shows the importance of this issue to Parliament, and that is what I want to stress to the Commissioner. I have heard the Commissioner’s response and, in some respects, I am gratified at what I have heard, but there is deep concern in this Parliament that, with the liberalisation of the postal services, social conditions and workers’ conditions, as well as the service conditions that are contained in the universal service, will be diluted on the altar of liberalisation and privatisation on some issues. I therefore think it is relevant that we make that point to him and I hope he will come back on that in his response. The second point I wanted to raise is in response to the spokesman from the EFD Group with regard to the United Kingdom and the fact that he was blaming the closure of sub-post offices in the United Kingdom on this liberalisation process. We need to nail that lie very strongly. The closure of sub-post offices in the United Kingdom was a decision of the United Kingdom. It was a decision that came about because the UK Government reduced its subsidy to sub-post offices and it changed its payments of benefits into a direct payments method. That was one of the major reasons why, along with Royal Mail cutbacks, sub-post offices closed in the United Kingdom. Finally, the idea of a UK opt-out is one of the most hilarious things I have ever heard in my life as far as postal services are concerned. Why? The most Hezbollah, pro-liberal, ‘let’s get on with it quicker than any other government’ government in Europe on liberalisation was the United Kingdom’s own government, from Thatcher to Major to Blair..."@en1
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