This morning Mr Zahawi said this:
As a result of this I have sent a letter to my Tory MP:
“Was Nadhim Zahawi correct when he said on Radio 4’s Today Programme that people who go to Conservative Party fundraising events increase their chances of influencing government policy and do you agree with him? There’s a widespread belief that it’s true. If it’s not true, will Mr. Zadhawi be taken to task over it and what steps are you going to take to be more responsive to your own constituents?
It would certainly appear from my occasional attempts to communicate with you that it could well be true. I’ve written to you on half a dozen or so occasions and as far as I recall, have only had two replies plus a promise from one of your aides that I would have a response within a few days. This was after I wrote to you pointing out that I had heard nothing in reply to a letter I’d written to you some weeks earlier. The promised response never materialised.
The two replies I did receive failed to answer any of the points I’d raised. One of your letters was nothing more than a defence of the Leave position on Brexit (rather patronising of you to assume I wasn’t familiar with it) and you’d also jumped to the conclusion that I was a Remain supporter even though there was nothing in my letter which suggested it. Your more recent letter was in response to my email about the Cummings debacle and the PM’s lying support of Mr. Cummings, which as I pointed out, was likely to scupper any attempts to get the public as a whole to take Boris Johnson’s rambling explanations of covid-19 precautions seriously. Not only did you avoid answering any of my points I now know two other people who received exactly the same letter. It suggests you may not have read many of the other letters you received about the Cummings issue.
I shouldn’t have to waste my time writing to you about your poor response to communications. I’d far prefer to be raising questions of wider concern in the hope that we can at least have an amicable discussion, even if we won’t always agree.
Yours sincerely
(Name & Address)
Alan Macalan
