Perhaps the post offices are trying to fight a rearguard action because they do not want people to move over to automated credit transfer.
They will be fighting a rearguard action to get some of that money back in the autumn.
Indeed, that rearguard action has itself adversely affected confidence in the police.
We usually fight a rearguard action but there are now 44-tonne lorries on our roads.
The second rearguard action which has to be fought is on the question of affinity.
We want to shape the future, and shaping the future does not mean fighting a rearguard action or useless protectionism, but accompanying change.
I sincerely feel that this is a rearguard action, out of step in terms of the information now available to our fellow citizens.
It can develop in ways that are more inclusive of all workers or in ways that preserve a distinction between an economic vanguard and an economic rearguard.
