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Glenda Jackson with campaigner Gene Adams in February
2005
Cllr Piers Wauchope with campaigners on Monday |
Tories and Labour square up to claim Post Office campaign
A ROW has broken out between the leader of Camden’s
Conservative group Piers Wauchope and Hampstead and Highgate
MP Glenda Jackson after they both backed the same campaign for
a new post office in Belsize Park.
Councillor Wauchope and his Primrose Hill colleague Cllr Jonny
Bucknell spent Monday lunchtime collecting signatures for a
petition they plan to send to the Post Office, asking why promises
for a new branch – made by the Post Office when it closed
the Haverstock Hill counter in 2004 – have not been kept.
The area’s current branch in Belsize Lane is due to shut
in two week’s time and the Post Office had previously promised
they would find a replacement before it was closed for good.
But Glenda Jackson, who marched with members of the Belsize
Residents Association last year to keep the Belsize Lane branch
open, has also been campaigning on the same issue – and
both are now accusing the other of being hypocritical. Cllr
Wauchope, who stood against Ms Jackson in the 2005 general election,
said Ms Jackson had voted to close 2,500 Post Offices in 2001.
He said: “She wanted to close these types of Post offices
down.”
Ms Jackson, who met with Post office representatives three weeks
ago to step up the pressure on them to find a new office in
Haverstock Hill, said previous Conservative governments had
failed to protect the sub-post offices. She said: “When
you think of how many they closed when they were in power, it
would make you laugh if it wasn’t so serious.” |
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