Agenda 2019

Royal mail can look for other "victims".     A tool used for "Blackmail" The Royal Mail put a card through my letter box yesterday, (Saturday 13th December 2014)advising, "Unfortunately we can't deliver your item because there is a fee to pay". Upon closer examination, it seems that "The sender didn't pay the full postage", and Royal Mail are demanding a payment from me of £1.11 This "Fee" includes a £1 handling charge! The item in question, I know to be a Christmas card which probably exceeds the arbitrary size restrictions (measured by a rather crude template device) impose d by Royal Mail a couple of years back as a means for extorting even more money from the long suffering public. The "excess charge" of 11p is really neither here nor there, but to add a handling charge of £1 is really adding insult to injury. I have no objection to excess charges where the sender has either forgotte...

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/08/nissan-automotive-industry Carlos Ghosn, head of car maker, suggests 6,500 jobs would be threatened by a yes vote in referendum Carlos Ghosn suggested Nissan might stop making cars in Britain   If this very rich  French-Lebanese-Brazilian were a Trade Union leader, he would be the target of the Sun, Mail, Telegraph, BBC, Sky News and all the other worker bashing media, demonised and vilified for holding the country to ransom with demands. In this instance however, Carlos Ghosn seeks to blackmail an entire nation into voting for his preferred position on EU membership, with the threat that  "  the car maker would reconsider its future in the UK if a push to leave the European Union succeeds.". To threaten the employment of 6,500 people and their families is a despicable act of a nasty little man, clearly capable of resorting to any measure in order to achieve his own ends.