That’s the phrase he used on Radio Devon this morning to justify what the presenter, Matt Woodley, called “U-turns” on where the next HQ for EDDC will be.  And recall that £705,000 is just the cost to the end of this financial year – not the final cost AND, it appeared from the interview, in addition to the £10 million plus it will cost to build the new HQ (see post below).

He revealed that ALL the costings for the move were wrong.  They had too high a value on Knowle and had not expected Manstone Depot to be unsaleable, they had under-estimated the cost of moving to Skypark and had not anticipated what might happen if the supermarket did not offer enough money for Honiton.

He said that it would cost £15.9m to refurbish Knowle but appeared happy to spend an unknown sum to refurbish Exmouth Town Hall.  He talked as if EDDC had always meant to retain the East Devon Business Centre in Honiton when they had told the tenants to start looking for other accommodation.

As Paul Arnott has said:  our council tax is not safe in this man’s hands.