The privatisation of our Royal Mail will all end in tears.
I predict that within 10 years, most of the shares will be owned by foreigners, we will no longer have a daily post through our letter boxes, and the present arrangement of the same price for a letter, no matter where it is going to in Britain will be a distant memory. The cost of posting a simple letter or package will have rocketed, even more than it has recently.
The new company will also require lashings of subsidy, in the same manner as the railways, in order to maintain a service. Thus the subsidies will come in the front door from the tax payer and go straight out the back door into the shareholders pockets, again, just like the railways.
Even Thatcher didn't try to sell off the post, even though her government had sold off everything else that wasn't nailed down.
The money raised by the sale will be used to provide a huge tax relief for wealthy people.
The Tories are on track all right, stealing from its own citizens, just like it always has done. Its the 1980's all over again.