Jonathan DJANOGLY MP writes about the Royal Mail strikes

[Big Daz]

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JONATHAN DJANOGLY MP
HUNTINGDON CONSTITUENCY
HOUSE OF COMMONS
LONDON SW1A 0AA



The Royal Mail national strike is unacceptable and represents a death wish on behalf of the CWU postal union.

Even without the strike, Royal Mail is predicted to lose some 8% of its mail volume this year. This is due to lack of modernisation, the internet and competitors taking away its business. The strike could accelerate this demise with an FSB survey today revealing that 70 per cent of small business customers are saying they will lose money and that half are considering leaving Royal Mail.

Not helped by a history of poor industrial relations, urgently needed modernisation has been constantly delayed over the last 12 years. This strike is only the latest in a history of union militancy that, frankly, resembles what we thought we had left behind in the 1970s. Although it is for the unions and management to resolve the strike, the government cannot avoid blame for its inability, as 100% shareholder, to ensure modernisation during its term of office.

But there are also fundamental structural issues which need to be resolved urgently for Royal Mail to survive. These were addressed in the recent Postal Services Bill which provided for a new regulatory regime, a resolution to the huge pension deficit and a mechanism to attract outside investment in the form of part privatisation.

We offered the government our support for the Bill and aided its passage through the Lords. Despite this, in the face of the opposition of some 150 Labour backbenchers and the threat of the CWU stopping its payments to Labour, the government pulled the Bill for political reasons. Even worse, they have offered no new alternative to save Royal Mail from further decline. This represents a huge government cop-out to the unions and the left and a lack of leadership from the Prime Minister.

The government maintains that the strike’s modernisation issues are to be detached from the Bill’s structural issues; so that they can avoid responsibility for the strike. But having secured their “victory” over the government, why did the unions start their local strikes just hours after Lord Mandelson announced he was pulling the Bill? The fact is that once government showed itself to be weak and ineffectual the unions simply stepped into the policy void with their demands against modernisation.

As we have consistently been maintaining since that time; Conservatives wish to secure a sustainable postal service for the future. We still believe that the best way to do this is to follow Richard Hooper’s proposals, which were the essence of the Postal Services Bill. This will resolve the company’s structural problems and enable a sensible injection of private capital and expertise into the Royal Mail. As part of this reform, we would want to ensure that postal workers can participate in employee share ownership.

Of course, if the government continues to abdicate its responsibility to the Royal Mail, to its staff and its customers, if elected, we will bring forward the Bill ourselves.

Yours ever,

Jonathan Djanogly MP

[Wessex]

Here we go again Leightons share scheme back on the agenda.

[westlondonpostie]

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Just another crook!!!

[fishtank]

JONATHAN DJANOGLY MP

I have practised law since 1990 and became a partner in a commercial law firm specialising in advising trade and both smaller and larger businesses. In 1994, Rebecca and I set up a mail order retail business.

Do you think he may have an agenda?

[Big Daz]

He aslo claimed for security gates on his home to protect himself and his family from animal rights extremists.

He has not had a easy time from the local media either, especially in the letters pages.

[opgpat]

"A Tory frontbencher claimed nearly £5,000 on his taxpayer-funded expenses to install automatic gates at his home, it was revealed tonight.
Jonathan Djanogly, a shadow business minister, also spent £13,962 on cleaning and £12,951 for gardening from his second home allowance, the Daily Telegraph reported.

He has now agreed to repay £25,000 of the £77,104 he has apparently spent maintaining the property out of his Commons expenses."


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[DirtyHarry]

"A Tory frontbencher claimed nearly £5,000 on his taxpayer-funded expenses to install automatic gates at his home, it was revealed tonight.
Jonathan Djanogly, a shadow business minister, also spent £13,962 on cleaning and £12,951 for gardening from his second home allowance, the Daily Telegraph reported.

He has now agreed to repay £25,000 of the £77,104 he has apparently spent maintaining the property out of his Commons expenses."


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Now there's a face just made to have a fist smashed into it. Djanogly, what a feckin' stupid name, suddenly pratt doesn't seem so bad.

[opgpat]

Now there's a face just made to have a fist smashed into it.

I totally abhore violence of any kind, but sometimes you have to make an exception.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Sorry but when I saw that picture my first thought was "He looks like one of those nodding dolls you used to get on cash dash boards" - anyone remember them. Really large heads and infinitesimally small bodies.

[dvbuk55]

Sorry but when I saw that picture my first thought was "He looks like one of those nodding dolls you used to get on cash dash boards" - anyone remember them. Really large heads and infinitesimally small bodies.

With a brain to match no doubt About three words in you just knew he was a Tory tosspot.

[fishtank]

Sorry but when I saw that picture my first thought was "He looks like one of those nodding dolls you used to get on cash dash boards" - anyone remember them. Really large heads and infinitesimally small bodies.

Well somethings probably infinitesimally small and its not his expenses claim.

[Cheetah]

"A Tory frontbencher claimed nearly £5,000 on his taxpayer-funded expenses to install automatic gates at his home, it was revealed tonight.
Jonathan Djanogly, a shadow business minister, also spent £13,962 on cleaning and £12,951 for gardening from his second home allowance, the Daily Telegraph reported.

He has now agreed to repay £25,000 of the £77,104 he has apparently spent maintaining the property out of his Commons expenses."


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I Can't understand why this pond life is given any exposure at all . Him and the rest of the disgracefull polititions have completely ripped the country of for millions of pounds in expense for second,third homes, cleaning pools, charity donations etc etc etc. Meantime the Greedy ba....ds send our troops fighting wars underequiped, see O.A.P's have to go without food to pay for utility bills etc, preside over a underfunded health service which can't deliver a fair essential nationwide service to the taxpayer, boost their own pension fund and wages as and when they require......You and all your colleagues in parliment are an absolute disgrace "we have done nothing wrong, we haven't broke any rules" What About MORALITY!!!!! and you have the cheek to tell us we are in the wrong defending our jobs and conditions .....Lower than snakes bellys you lot. I have never failed to vote in any election but will never vote again for any of you Thieves.

[opgpat]

Lower than snakes bellys you lot. I have never failed to vote in any election but will never vote again for any of you Thieves.

I'll be voting Green Party as usual and if they're not sitting in my area BNP.

[dogfood]

I stopped reading after the first sentence this prick obviously has no idea what he is talking about.

[IWW Fellow Worker]

"A Tory frontbencher claimed nearly £5,000 on his taxpayer-funded expenses to install automatic gates at his home, it was revealed tonight.
Jonathan Djanogly, a shadow business minister, also spent £13,962 on cleaning and £12,951 for gardening from his second home allowance, the Daily Telegraph reported.

He has now agreed to repay £25,000 of the £77,104 he has apparently spent maintaining the property out of his Commons expenses."


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What an oily looking bastard! If he ever gets voted out, he could become a Royal Mail "manager".