DEPUTY council leader David Baker's attack on Socialist Party and Sheffield Communities Against Post Office Closures (SCAPOC) is outrageous (Aug 22).
The Socialist Party has been campaigning on this issue since the national 2500 closures were announced in Summer 2007. Over 8000 people have signed the petitions on our stalls and talked to us about the issues.
This June, with a list of proposed c
losures in Sheffield imminent we, together with the Green Party, several sub-postmasters, CWU members, pensioners and others keen to fight the closure plans set up SCAPOC. This is very much a united campaign. The only voices of disunity have been from the councillors sent to watch our meetings. Last Thursday the Lib Dem councillor attending sniped that while the council wants to save all 16 Sheffield post offices, SCAPOC only wants to save three. Wrong. We are against all 16 closures and there are campaigns in eight.
At the previous meeting Paul Scriven told us the council is drawing up material against the 16 closures, but won't give it to anyone until it is finished. But sub-postmasters and campaigners facing the task of creating formal cases against closures need the material as soon as it is produced. Otherwise the work is being duplicated.
Where post offices are closed the council should take over running post office services itself as is being planned in Essex.
S Milsom, Socialist Party
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