Thumbs down to a less-than-Royal Mail

So the polling evidence is that three-quarters of the British public oppose privatisation of the Royal Mail, and that a full nine-tenths would oppose it if it involved some form of foreign ownership (and for legal reasons there could be no guarantee it wouldn't). You can't really quibble about figures as overwhelming as those, which leaves only one remaining question - do we or do we not have a "listening government"? Answers on a postcard...