AS a user of Redditch’s Mount Pleasant Post Office, and an angry person at the wholesale slaughter of yet another British icon, can I say that I hold no hope at all that Jacqui Smith, our MP, will be of any help.

She constantly voted for closures and her lack of aid whilst Batchley and Abbeydale sub-offices went is still treated with anger by disillusioned townspeople in these areas.

A few flowery words were said about hope yet it already had been a done deal!

Ms Smith cannot serve two masters. She is either Home Secretary or our full time MP fighting government idiocy. I think by now, we know the answer to that.

Paul Dyson, Brockhill, Redditch