7th February 2016
The Rt
Hon David Cameron MP
Prime
Minister
10
Downing Street
London
SW1A 2AA
Dear Mr
Cameron
LUCY
ALLAN MP – THE ONGOING DAMAGE BEING DONE TO THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY
I wish
to make you aware of the damage that my MP Lucy Allan is continuing to do to
the Party and urge you to take action.
I should
immediately make it clear that until now I have always voted Conservative in
elections. I have lived in Telford for most of my life and last year I voted
for Mark Pritchard as I lived in his constituency at that time, but I supported
Lucy Allan on social media and thought her success was well-deserved. However, because of Mrs Allan’s lack of
openness and accountability with regards to the ‘Unless you die’ email and
because of her conduct towards me personally the Conservatives have now lost my
support.
Mrs
Allan is continuing to avoid questions about the source of the words ‘Unless
you die’ that she added to a constituent’s email and published on her facebook
page in December 2015.
She
claims that these words were taken from a second email that she has received
but she refuses to publish that email (which she has confirmed was anonymous
and non-threatening) or a relevant extract of it and she refuses to explain why
she cannot publish it.
In the
absence of any evidence to support Mrs Allan’s claim, the only logical
conclusion that I and many other people have drawn is that those words did not
come from a second email but that Mrs Allan herself made those words up before
adding them to her constituent’s email. If
this is the case this would mean that the official statements that she has been
making to members of public and the national media are false.
Last
month Lucy Allan MP pulled out of a scheduled interview with the BBC because,
as the BBC have officially stated, they ‘couldn’t agree to avoid questions on
the ‘’Unless you die’’ email.’
Last
month I explained to the local Conservatives Association that I had emailed Mrs
Allan concerning the ‘Unless you die’ email but had not received a straight
reply from her. They were very helpful and advised me to contact Mrs Allan to
arrange a surgery appointment to discuss my concerns. Later that day I received
a shocking email from Mrs Allan in which she accused me of conduct that could
be described as ‘stalking’ and she told me that any further contact with her
office would be considered ‘harassment’. I was appalled at receiving this email because
all I had done was to correspond by email asking for clarification of the
unpublished ‘Unless you die’ email. I immediately went to the police because if
Mrs Allan was going to wrongly accuse me of stalking I was concerned that she might
later wrongly accuse me of harassment.
Another
constituent was last week refused a surgery appointment with Mrs Allan last
week because he wanted to discuss the ‘Unless you die’ email.
Numerous
people have asked Mrs Allan via social media why she will not publish the
‘Unless you die’ email and she has responded by ignoring their question and
then blocking them.
I believe
from speaking to people in Telford that Mrs Allan is losing a great deal of
support because of her lack of openness and her blocking of voters who dare to
question her.
Because
the Conservative Party has so far taken no action against Mrs Allan many people
have interpreted this as the Party condoning her actions. Others have pointed out that Telford is a
marginal seat and they believe that the Conservative Party will do anything to
hang on to that seat and so will support Lucy Allan come what may.
In my
view, if the Conservative Party continues to take no action there will be
longer-term damage done to the Conservatives’ election chances in Telford and
possibly further afield. However, if decisive action is taken now to distance
the Party from the actions of Mrs Allan this can only reflect well on the Party
as a whole.
Yours
sincerely
Neil
Phillips
cc Mr
David Wright, Chairman of Telford Conservatives
