Here in Bath we saved 2 Post Offices from the last round of closures due to a concerted campaign by Don Foster MP and the local Lib Dem councillor group.

However Post Offices need services to offer so it was great that the Parliamentary party used an opportunity to debate the Post Office Card Account and the need to keep it with the Post Office.  In the debate the Labour Party voted against the Liberal Democrat motion.  A move that potentially threatened even more of the network.

So it was cheers all round when James Purnell decided to ignore his own Labour Party and take the advice from the Liberal Democrats and keep the POCA with the Post Office. In Bath and NES over 11,000 as at the end of 2005 were POCA users.