It appears that the Editor of the View from … newspapers has been castigated for being partisan in reporting the news of the East Devon Alliance supporting Independent candidates in the forthcoming elections.

Independent councillors still have political views: some tend towards conservative values, some towards liberal or social democratic values, some to the right or left of all of these.

What unites them is their refusal to submit to party political voting and whipping when it comes to local issues and they refuse to submit to whipping on party lines.

Independent councillors will go to the ballot box for our next MP and could vote for absolutely anyone but at district level they see that there is no place for party politics. Isn’t that great!