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POST OFFICES - GREEN PARTY OUTRAGE AS GOVERNMENT SLASHES LIFELINE |
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People need Post Offices says Carol Kambites
The Gloucestershire Green Party condemns the Government’s latest plans
to price out the poor and elderly. New proposed government plans will
take away the post office savings account and replace it with a new
“Easy Access” account, which would require a minimum of £100
investment. This means that many vulnerable people will find
themselves without any banking or saving services from August 1st this
year.
Carol Kambites (i), Green Party Euro-candidate for the South West
region, where Greens are confident of gaining at least one MEP, said:
ӣ100 is a lot of money to many pensioners, single mothers and those on
income support or low earnings. This is essentially an attack on poor
people who like to save a little bit from their weekly money for
emergencies, birthdays and so forth.”
Carol Kambites said: “It is typical of this Government to call
something ‘Easy Access’ when in fact it is much harder to access than
the old system. Many people hold Post Office Savings Accounts because
they can save and have access to small amounts of money. It is mainly
the poor and elderly that use these accounts and to axe them is not
fair.”
Carol continued; ” This phase-out will cut off an entire segment of the
public from a stable place to put their money, in just the same way
that this government is closing local post offices. People want these
kinds of services. This massive disenfranchisement may not be such a
new thing for Labour, but for the Green Party, it is just not
acceptable. It is another case of government discriminating against
the poor.”
Carol Kambites concluded: ”Many elderly people regarded their local
post offices as a lifeline. Cutting them out of the services they’ve
come to depend on is disgraceful.”
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