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Burton MP accused of betraying Royal Mail
Labour MP Janet Dean has been accused of betraying the Royal Mail by sending out personal Christmas cards using a private company rather than the Royal Mail.
The comments were made after the Burton MP and the woman standing as the next Labour candidate sent Christmas cards and surveys to people in Burton and Uttoxeter using the Dutch delivery company TNT.
Mr Griffiths said
“I am shocked that the local MP and the Labour candidate should choose to betray the Royal Mail at a time when it is struggling to survive. Just last month Gordon Brown said he wanted to privatise the Royal Mail, but it looks like Mrs Dean has already decided to abandon it altogether.”
The Christmas card and survey is the second letter to Burton residents from the Labour Party sent using TNT in the last month. Like the Christmas cards, the previous letter was also printed in Northumberland.
Mr Griffiths added,
“I have already had local residents complaining that Mrs Dean has laid herself open to accusations of being hypocritical because she has made so many public statements in support of the postal service. When the first letter was sent using TNT I gave her the benefit of the doubt because I recognise that she can’t be held responsible for everything her party sends out centrally, and neither could I for mine. However, to send personal Christmas cards through Dutch owned TNT like this takes the biscuit. Doing it once can be forgiven, but twice means that Burton Labour Party has clearly made a decision to stop supporting Royal Mail workers locally."
"Mrs Dean voted to close Post Offices and then campaigned to keep them open locally, and now she is supporting Dutch run private companies over the Royal Mail. I have always judged people on deeds not words, and I am afraid that Mrs Dean has no credibility left at all. Labour’s record on postal services speaks for itself.”
Mr Griffiths campaigned against the closure of post offices in Burton and Uttoxeter, and collected over 7,000 signatures on a petition which he delivered to 10 Downing Street . Mr Griffiths sent all of his Christmas cards by Royal Mail or delivered them by hand.
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