He uses this to falsely suggest that the organisers of the Sheffield Communities Against Post Office Closures (SCAPOC) are not in support of this aim.

And I must come to the defence of the Socialist Party, who Councillor Baker ignorantly accuses of "not getting on board with our (my italics] general campaign" and to stop "trying to score political points".

My wife and I are two of the lead organisers of the Save Derbyshire Lane Post Office campaign group, which includes our branch Postmaster. We are not members of any political party.

Over the last month, we have had nothing but support from the SCAPOC Steering Committee. They have cheered the actions that we as a local community have chosen to take, and they have been prepared to roll their sleeves up to campaign with us on our front line and behind the scenes.

None of the committee members has pushed or promoted their particular politics.

This support came after we attended a public meeting organised by SCAPOC within two days of the unfortunate announcement of closures by Post Office Ltd. It was attended by concerned people like ourselves, affected postmasters and postmistresses, representatives of the Federation of Small Businesses and the Communication Workers Union, and all the political parties on the council.

At this meeting, SCAPOC organisers stated categorically that their campaign was not politically partisan and they asked for the support of all present. I think this illustrates SCAPOC doing their best to take a "unified approach".

The Leader of Sheffield Council was there and stated that the council was opposing all the closures but preferred to campaign separately to SCAPOC.

I regard the Council leader's position as perfectly legitimate, but it obviously shows his deputy leader's assertions against SCAPOC and the Socialist Party to be disingenuous nonsense.



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