The Last Post?

So - they wanna close our Post Office huh?

Well - they've bitten off more than they can chew this time!

I tell you what we'll do - we'll organise a rally and get everyone along to show these 'bozos' our feelings!

Enter stage right Rugby and Kenilworth MP Jeremy Wright (Con) - he'll get this show on the road - you just wait and see...

A public 'anti-closure' rally ensues. I didn't see it on the news at ten, but the Kenilworth Weekly news reported it.

They even got a 'post rally' ('scuse the pun, but I couldn't resist it...) quote from 'our Jeremy', and I quote their quote;

“The response was incredible. There were a good 150 people there maybe more and it just goes to show the level of passion people have on this issue.”

Passion eh? Maybe more than 150 eh Jeremy, eh? Hey - are you awake?

What, like we got 151, or 152 - or perhaps even 155?

What have we got here in this town - a population of 23-24,000 people, and you managed to get a whole 0.65% of them mobilised? And the 'Cons' claim that they don't 'spin'!

Just how was this event organised Iwonder? Did Jeremy muster all of his local supporters for this rally? Ahh - that'll explain it then, and the other 100 must've been curious passers-by...

This also explains why I wasn't at the rally, despite my support of its purpose.

I didn't know it was happening!

In a previous blog-post I spoke about our local conservative party's claim to to have joined the 21st century. Their justification for this claim? Well - they now have an email address (yeah I know, but don't laugh at the poor dears - they are trying).

I suspect that they haven't worked out how to 'send' yet, or perhaps they aren't carefully maintaining their address book.

Never mind though, they could've posted notes through letter boxes (like they did with their, less than rivetting newsletter). Had they done this, and resisted the temptation to stamp 'conservative' all over it, people might have even read it and we might have seen a thousand at the rally.

Whatever else you do Jeremy, if you organise something like this in the future, don't rely on the post-office to communicate the arrangements - there might not be one left!