Under the heading of “No punishment for Eileen” today’s Express and Echo reports that,  although the EDDC Standards Board had recommended that town and district councllor Eileen Wragg (Lib Dem) be censured by the town council, they unanimously decided to ignore the “advice” and to take no action against her. This included Tory members of the town council even though it was the town’s Conservative group that reported her in the first place!

She had been accused of “being extremely rude” to former Town Mayor John Humphreys at last year’s town meeting.

She refused to attend the EDDC Standards Board meeting, branding it “an appalling waste of taxpayers’ money” and saying she had “real life things” to do.

For two diametrically opposite views on this see:

http://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/exmouth-life/if_you_can_t_take_criticism_resign_1_3609931

or

http://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/exmouth-life/a_sorry_affair_1_3600292