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From Cable's standpoint there is nothing stupid about this sell-off.

Communication Workers Union general secretary Billy Hayes is correct to sum up privatisation as essentially about greed.

But he is wrong to characterise Business Secretary Vince Cable as making "one of the stupidest mistakes in politics on privatising Royal Mail."

From Cable's standpoint there is nothing stupid about this sell-off.

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