Postal Services Bill
Debate between Robert Halfon and David Anderson(13 years, 6 months ago)
Commons ChamberRead Full debate Read Hansard Text
Mr Anderson
I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. If she would like to meet me outside in the Lobby, I will take her name and address and pass it to the general secretary of the Communication Workers Union. I will ask him to write to his 700 members at Beeston to ask them to contact their MP and tell her that they are happy to work for TNT or Deutsche Bank, and that they will be happy to see their pensions, shift allowances and jobs go down the river. If that is what the workers want, that is what the rigours of privatisation will deliver. The track record cannot be denied. We can pretend it does not happen, but that is the truth.
It is clear that there is nothing new in the Bill—
Robert Halfon
It seems that clause IV is alive and well in the Labour party. According to the hon. Gentleman’s logic, should he not nationalise everything? Why not put Sainsbury’s and Tesco under state ownership?