Post Office closures not an EU issue

11:22am Friday 27th June 2008

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I KEEP reading in newspapers that UKIP maintain that Post Office Closures are down to EU Directive 88/89 of the Treaty of Amsterdam This is absolute nonsense. Post Office closures have nothing to do with the EU but are down to Member States.

The real reason for these Post Office closures has to do with people using the Internet more and the withdrawal of services, such as road tax, TV licences all being done on line and the fact that pensions and benefits are paid directly into bank accounts.

All that has more to do with Post Office closures and as I say, has absolutely nothing to do with the EU and as usual this is just UKIP peddling anti-European criticism all of which have no semblance of truth. BRIAN SIMPSON MEP