Since Lucy Allan was accused of faking her own death threat online, the Tory MP has gone underground — deleting her Twitter and changing her privacy settings on Facebook. Last night she made a brief return to social media in order to release a statement with an accompanying video.
In this, she opted not to apologise for adding the words ‘unless you die‘ to a constituent’s letter. Instead she chose to blame the whole fiasco on activists who were unhappy she was elected.
‘Last week was without doubt the weirdest of my political life so far. It was never about my use of social media. It was only ever about activists unhappy they didn’t get the MP they wanted, frustrated they didn’t get the government they wanted and angry that this government has had to implement some tough decisions in order to keep this country on track.’
With Allan making the bold claim that the story was never about her ‘use of social media’, Mr S is unsurprised to learn that she has now taken the post down.
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