WHAT do post offices and bent cucumbers have in common? The answer is simple, they have had a reprieve.

Three thousand post offices that were earmarked for closure have been saved. The Government has now given back the contract to the post offices and saved an estimate of 10,000 jobs. The EU are not happy that the Government has back-tracked when it had already been put out to private tender. No-one ever asks us!

It will now cost millions of pounds in compensation. In six years' time, however, those 3,000 post offices will be put back up for private tender once again. We must not be misled, because it is a well-known fact that 2,500 post offices have to go. Some of these have already gone and the others will follows by 2010.

Wonky fruit and veg have also been saved. It has taken 20 years for the EU to realise that the public are right in the end and we cannot go on wasting good food, whatever shape it is. This has cost the British taxpayer billions of pounds for the unelected commissioners to sit and make ridiculous laws.

If we came out of the EU, we would save billions of pounds which would go most of the way towards getting us out of recession.

Robin Julian

prospective parliamentary candidate

UKIP