" Cheap evening trunk rates throughout Britain will not be
available tomorrow, which is a holiday in Scotland." Such is the almost incredible decision of the Postmaster-General. We are bitterly familiar with the cynical disregard of the public interest by the Post Office since the war. A comparison between Post Office facilities today and in the pre-war years of " Tory misrule " would be damningly instructive. But here cynicism seems to have reached what Ministers would call its target—and considerably overshot i£ Because some five million people in Scotland are keeping holiday, 44 million in England and Wales, the vast majority of whom want to make calls within the limits of England and Wales, are to be deprived of their normal and reasonable. facilities. The Post Office ought to figure in the General Election ; any party that will promise a decent postal service, including a reasonably late collection in London and other large cities, deserves votes.
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