{"id":863,"date":"2008-03-26T21:51:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T20:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=863"},"modified":"2008-03-26T21:51:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T20:51:44","slug":"keeping-you-posted-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"Keeping you posted"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my capacity as Chairman of the London Region of Postwatch, I’ve attended no less than four meetings today to discuss the proposals to close 169 post offices in the capital:<\/p>\n

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  1. I was at the House of Commons for an hour to meet a Member of Parliament to talk about two proposed closures in his constituency.\n
  2. I was at Postwatch Headquarters for an hour to review the London programme with our London Regional Manager.\n
  3. I was at the Oversight & Scrutiny Committee of Haringey Council for over two hours to given evidence on six proposed closures in the Borough,\n
  4. I was at a public meeting in Kensington & Chelsea to speak on the proposal to close two offices in that Borough. This last meeting was the most exciting. There were around 250 people filling a hall and the speakers included former Conservative Cabinet Minister and local MP Malcolm Rifkin and former Labour Cabinet Minister and local resident Tony Benn.<\/ol>\n

    It is because of this public consultation programme – which ends next week – that I haven’t been blogging much recently …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In my capacity as Chairman of the London Region of Postwatch, I’ve attended no less than four meetings today to discuss the proposals to close 169 post offices in the capital: I was at the House of Commons for an hour to meet a Member of Parliament to talk about two proposed closures in his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}