RachelNotRachael
🏷️ Concerned Citizen FringeLeads ☕ The Quietly Seething Party
Member since February 2026 · 🔥 12-day streak
Recent policies
All policies →The Royal Mail is a universal service. Regulate it like one, not like a parcels startup.
Last week a Royal Mail delivery driver knocked on my door to hand me a parcel addressed to a neighbour two streets over. She had given up. The van was running. The backlog of redirected parcels in the back was, by my rough count, about fort
Stop outsourcing critical public services to Capita, Serco and friends. They keep failing. We keep paying.
A non-exhaustive list of things Capita has been paid large sums of public money to mess up: Army recruitment. The contract was so badly managed that recruitment fell by 30% in the first year. They kept the contract. Teachers pensions. The
Ban private ambulance services from responding to 999 calls
Did you know that when you dial 999 in parts of England, the ambulance that arrives is not an NHS ambulance. Its a private contractor. Paid by the NHS. Often with less qualified staff. Operating on a contract that pays them more if they hit
Broadband should be classified as essential infrastructure, same as water and electricity
You need broadband to work from home, access government services, do your banking, help your kids with homework, and see a GP by video call. It is not a luxury. Classify it as essential infrastructure with a legal minimum speed. If provider
Stop closing rural post offices and bus routes then wondering why villages die
There is a pattern that repeats across rural England and it goes like this. First the bus route gets cut because its not commercially viable. Then the post office closes because footfall dropped when the bus stopped. Then the pub closes bec