General Election 2015: Tory candidate hits out at vandals who flooded parents' garden with oil
Charlotte Leslie described them as acting 'like the spoiled children of a careless millionaire'
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Your support makes all the difference.A Tory candidate has hit out at vandals who flooded her parents’ garden with more than 1,000 litres of oil, describing them as acting “like the spoiled children of a careless millionaire”.
Charlotte Leslie, who is seeking to return as MP for Bristol North West, condemned the “twisted, hate-consumed” people who drilled a hole in an oil tank at her family home and let 250 gallons of heating oil – a year’s supply – drain into the garden.
Cars owned by Ms Leslie and her 70-year-old father, Ian, were also spray-painted with the words “Tory scum” and “media hungry” on Friday. Anti-fracking anarchists claimed responsibility for the attacks in a blog post signed by “Thatcher’s children”.
Ms Leslie said the spilt oil would kill anything growing nearby and so she could “only laugh” if the attack was perpetrated by people who are against fracking.
She said the most upsetting thing about it was that Syrians were dying for the cause of democracy in their country but the vandals had apparently “forgotten the luxury” of Britain’s political system.
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, she said democracy was being “taken for granted and defaced by those who are so privileged that they have forgotten the luxury of the political system in which they operate, and take for granted, like the spoiled children of a careless millionaire”.
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