THE councillor accused of sending racist emails has fired a parting shot at the Tory party after joining UKIP.

Calne councillor Ellie Bland, owner of Sophisticatz in Wootton Bassett, who last week met the leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage, says that the Tory's hung her out to dry when the controversy erupted over the racist emails.

Coun Bland had claimed that the email had been sent by her husband David, another councillor who has gone from the Conservat-ives to UKIP.

Looking back at her acrimonious departure from the Tory party, she said: "They sat back and hung me out to dry.

"I went over to UKIP and it's nice to be with a leader who firmly has his feet on the ground and considers the needs of people far more important than mud slinging between the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

"The support I'm getting is absolutely wonderful. A lot of people are fearful of the BNP and UKIP is refreshing because it's giving the people what they want with no racism.

"David Cameron didn't even take the time or trouble to contact me and ask if it was true.

"He just suspended me and hung me out to dry.

"The hardest part was to have my own party, who I have been very loyal to, cut me off.

"They didn't even have the decency to phone me on the day and say can you tell us what this is all about?'.

"I had to ring them and they said you're suspended pending an inquiry'. That's no way to treat a loyal servant."

Mr Farage visited Coun Bland at her other shop in Calne.

She said: "It's heart warming to know a leader will come and visit.

"If I ring him he answers the phone, talks to me. With David Cameron you could go to a meeting and be lucky to get him to shake your hand. He would look straight through you."

Coun Bland resigned from the Tory party in January and she is standing for UKIP as a town councillor and a district councillor for Lickhill ward on May 3.

"I'm very optimistic judging by the tremendous support of the town's people," she said.

The email, forwarded under the words Oh Yes! Ellie, was titled Illegal Immigrants Poem, and was written in Pidgin English.

It describes an immigrant coming to live in the Britain to live on benefits, before inviting his family from his home country to move here too and buying up the rest of the street after all of the white residents move out.

Beneath the poem appears the words Please send this to every British taxpayer you know'.