Does Exeter have its own vanity project?

And interesting to see a prospective Conservative Candidate for Exeter City Council (and former Exeter City Centre Manager) lash the Labour majority with these words:

“As a direct result of investing those millions of pounds in the swimming pool we are going to have to make further cuts in other services.

It’s completely wrong. It’s the wrong moment to do it and I think when people realise this is being funded from the public purse and we’re all going to have to pay more as a result and have less services available to us, it’s something they will be really angry about.”

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/8220-Stuff-fantasy-8221-Exeter-Swimming-pool/story-26049183-detail/story.html

So far only EDDC Conservative Peter Halse has had the courage to tell his colleagues what he thinks about THEIR vanity project:

https://eastdevonwatch.org/2015/01/23/quite-honestly-we-have-fallen-flat-on-our-face-with-the-relocation-project-warns-honiton-councillor-peter-halse/