Below is the full text of my letter to the Thurrock Gazette about Jackie
Doyle-Price entitled “Is Jackie Doyle-Price fit to be Thurrock’s MP?”
In recent months it has become increasingly apparent
to me that Thurrock MP, Jackie Doyle-Price, is unfit to represent the
electorate of her constituency.
Not only has Ms Doyle-Price shown a callous disregard
for the damage her party’s policies are doing to the poor, sick and disabled of
the country (as evidenced by her recent vote against the investigation into the
rise in the use of food banks) but she also shirks her responsibility in
representing the views of some of her constituents, myself being one of
them.
Ms Doyle-Price has refused to acknowledge receipt of
my e-mails, has refused to provide any substantive answers to the points I
raised and has been rude and dismissive stating that “I have no need for a pen
friend”. She has also shown herself to
be offensive by sending an Easy Read leaflet on the role of an MP when it is
clear from my correspondence to her that I am not suffering from any learning
difficulty. In fact, in a response to my
request that she attend a debate on Mental Health in Parliament (when she was
still responding, that is), she sent me the Hansard documentation of the debate
which contained every word spoken in the debate but did not provide me with the
information of why she did not attend.
Ms Doyle-Price does not represent the people of
Thurrock in the way that they deserve to be represented and, in fact, only
represents a dismal 21.7% of the entire
electorate of Thurrock. She should
represent the views of her constituents, without fear or favour, even if she disagrees
with them and she should engage with her constituents in whatever way they wish
to contact her, providing substantive answers or other adequate and appropriate
responses.
It is
the duty of every citizen to engage in the democratic process by contacting
their MP on issues that concern them and to hold their MP to account for their
voting record and actions in office.
It is
the duty of every MP to represent the views of the people they represent and to
allow themselves to be held to account by those same people. Jackie Doyle-Price fails to adhere to her
duty in almost every respect.
Myles
Cook, Argent Street, Grays.
I included a postscript that invited the Gazette to contact me if they
wished to view the correspondence between JD-P and myself but have decided that
I would not post it here as it has my contact number in it and it is not part
of the main letter.
If it gets printed in next week’s edition and
I get any responses, I’ll post the responses here.
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