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So, finally it’s official - the consultation over Post Office closures was a sham. Don’t tell me you missed it – didn’t get much space in the nationals, radio or tv this week – about as much as the original closure plans got.

According to “Consumer Focus” POL failed to engage three million people effectively in the consultation. Tell me about it.

Of course they didn’t – that wasn’t their job. Their job – given them by the Government - was to close down branches with as least fuss as possible and they did that supremely well. You can just hear ‘em.

“Tell you what we’ll do, we’ll set a really short deadline for people to object, then we need a big list of criteria for closure – that’ll keep ‘em all busy, then we’ll ignore all that and do what we’re being paid to do, shut the bloody things down and sell it off to the Germans.”

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