MP Defies Party To Support Crewe Postal Workers

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CREWE and Nantwich MP Edward Timpson voted against his own party last week over the shake-up of Royal Mail.

It was a show of defiance by Mr Timpson early in his Parliamentary career after snatching the South Cheshire constituency from Labour in a high-profile by-election last year.

The MP has been working to help save hundreds of jobs at the Crewe sorting office on Weston Road, which Royal Mail bosses have decided are to be transferred to a new depot in Warrington.

Mr Timpson voted against a motion in Parliament tabled by the Conservative Party to welcome the Hooper Report on the future of Royal Mail.

It read: "That this House welcomes the Hooper review of UK postal services and urges the Government to implement rapidly the review’s proposals for the partial privatisation of Royal Mail."

Mr Timpson said: "Crewe sorting office has been earmarked for closure, with little consultation from Royal Mail.

"This will result in a loss of up to 600 local jobs, with the majority of staff unable to relocate.

"The impact on both them and their families at a time of recession would be devastating.

"They do not oppose modernisation of their industry.

"Like them, I have found Royal Mail managers and the Minister for Postal Affairs to be disinterested and dismissive rather than concerned with the plight of workers at this time of recession.

"They have used the Hooper Report as an excuse to retrospectively justify their behaviour.

"I cannot therefore welcome a report that is being used as a stick with which to beat the third largest workforce in my constituency.

"They deserve better than the atrocious treatment they have received."

[Thorby Bislam]

A rare example of a MP putting his constituency first. Well done Mr Timpson.

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Mr TIMPSON