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A few days ago I realised that I had forgotten to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the great Post Office strike of 1971.
I joined the Post Office in January 1970 and I usually had three shifts: mornings starting at around 5am for a delivery round, afternoons in the bag-cleaning room, and a night shift on parcels. In those days the Post Office comprised of letters, parcels and counter services, as well as telecommunications - though my own area of work was letters and parcels.
When I started I had a week with an experienced postman and then I was on my own. We were due back at the office at 10am for breakfast in the canteen and then out at half-past for the second delivery; it was a little while before I got a second delivery out at all! Every little gap in a hedge or a low fence helped, along with a good letter-box technique - it takes time. (And then there were the dogs!)
U.K.’s Labour Party Reels After Panicked Response to Election Loss
The party leader, Keir Starmer, was seen as scapegoating a key aide, causing more turmoil in an already divided party after a disappointing performance in local elections.
The Labour leader Keir Starmer at the House of Commons last year.Credit.UK Parliament/EPA, via Shutterstock
May 10, 2021
LONDON Sober, cerebral and with the poise of the top-shelf lawyer he once was, Keir Starmer promised competence rather than charisma when he became leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party last year, following its crushing general election defeat in 2019.
But his panicky response to last week’s poor local election results and a clumsy reshuffle of his top team have left his party in turmoil, diminishing his authority and raising doubts about whether Labour has a credible path back to power.
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It is not a binary choice between independence and the Tory status quo we need to defend devolution from Westminster and fight for a fairer, greener, socialist future as equal partners with the rest of the UK, writes BETH WINTER MP
Senedd Election 2021: Every Alyn and Deeside candidate standing in May
Labour currently holds the seat in the Welsh Parliament
The Alyn and Deeside electoral boundary for the Welsh Parliament (Image: ONS)
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