In a bizarre interview, finally broadcast in full by BBC Radio Derby yesterday, local Tory Heather Wheeler claims that her constituents will benefit from a German company being awarded a high-value contract over Canadian firm Bombardier, who will be forced to lay off 1,400 local workers.
Having already damaged local industry’s reputation by claiming that “the Bombardier price was so way out” by as much as “ten times” the cost of a rival bid from Siemens, the full interview reveals that the MP had absolutely no clue what the details of the contracts were.
And while she now finds herself spinning the government line — sending her popularity crashing in a local poll — just three weeks ago she wrote a strongly worded letter to the Prime Minister, asking him to overturn the deal:
“I cannot overestimate the level of feeling that awarding this contract to a foreign company has engendered, not just in Derby…I strongly urge you to investigate this issue, rethink the Government’s position put matters right by excluding Siemens and award the contract to Bombardier”
In the interview, which was recorded over the weekend, she made much of her willingness to speak to the media on a Saturday morning, boasting that:
“Not a day goes by when I am not doing something for the people of Derby.”
When we attempted to reach her yesterday, she was on holiday abroad, refusing to speak to the press. Calls to her parliamentary office were not returned.
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Is She talking about Derbyshire UK, She probably means another Derbyshire somewhere, maybe US or Australia or even some far off planet!!? Is she for real or is she playing a role in some bizare soap series.
Don’t forget to archive all these tantram statements and replay when the next election comes!
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