Completely irrelevant to this thread but had to respond as uknasa appears to be back in spouting rubbish mode, again
Regarding the Royal Mail/Post Office, from the DTI website:
UK Government is the sole shareholder in Royal Mail Holdings plc. One ordinary share is held by the HM Treasury solicitor (as a nominee of HM Treasury) and 49,999 ordinary shares plus one special share are held by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. The Treasury hold a share because company law requires a plc company to have a minimum of two shareholders.
More research required?!? By who?
Regarding the NHS: if the NHS is so well funded my father (UK taxpayer all of his life) would not be going private for a forthcoming op. And TBliar would not have announced this weekend that he plans greater use of Private Healthcare (if re-elected) to try and reduce waiting lists!