Credit to those at EDDC who want the local young people to get interested and involved. But how much planning did this take? Three thousand hits already but apparently no comments on the ldf site. And really it is crap.
Two obvious questions.
1. Was this video free to produce as implied on the youtube link or did it cost the 600 quid stated by Express and Echo?
2. Will the consultation carry any weight, or is it a fig leaf?
Certainly the links don't lead to an inviting space. Three clicks and you come to Coun Randall Johnson's welcoming smile, introducing you to a dry and opaque consultation document. Surprise, surprise no comments yet.
This is the same lady council leader who spent six figures of our money protecting us from a scenario where we might have had democratic options in East Devon by means of a unitary authority in combination with either Exeter or the rest of Devon despite, as Private Eye stated, the fact that she had a conflict of interest. This is based on her employment as a PR person with Flybe, and East Devon being the regulatory authority for Exeter Airport. The Journal even printed a poem from her on the subject.
She positions herself as fighting to uphold local democracy but in fact she is protecting an administration that is so entrenched that we are not just governed by one party, but by a clique within the local party. That is why Sidmouth and West Hill are always well looked after but Exmouth and Seaton (the town solld to Tesco) are always dumped on.
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