While the Scribe was away in Singapore, it was announced Britain's Royal Mail is about to be privatised. The Queen, in case you're wondering, doesn't own the business, it's state-owned and Westminster is desperate for cash. In this "austerity' era, Mr Cameron can barely afford to fire the odd cruise missile, so a couple of billion sterling raised from the Royal Mail is what Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister between 1957-63, would undoubtedly called a classic example of "selling off the family silver."
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