See the headline under the video of the (atrociously poor) speech after Johnson lost his vote in Parliament this evening:
Daily Archives: 3 Sep 2019
Is this how the Leader of the House (Rees-Mogg) should behave?
His arrogant contempt and smug expression during the Brexit debate – how on earth can the people of Somerset vote for this excuse for a politician?
Secret “Exmouth Regeneration Board” to be replaced by secret “Exmouth Queen’s Drive Delivery Group”
Owl says: Oh, those promises of transparency … so transparently broken!
“… The Group will meet a minimum of four times in a year, in private, to ensure that confidential or commercially sensitive matters can be discussed, but meeting notes will be published through the council’s Cabinet papers. … ”
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/plans-future-exmouth-seafront-revealed-3276852
Carters Woodbury power plant refused by EDDC Development Management Committee
Of course, it will be appealed – too much profit (for them, not the village) at stake :
“East Devon councillors have rejected plans for a power plant near Exeter.
Plutus Energy Limited had proposed building 20 generators near Woodbury Business Park in a bid to provide additional power to nearby homes and businesses at peak times.
Campaigners against the plans said the system would be extremely harmful to the environment, pumping out 60,000 tonnes of carbon emissions per year.
Before the meeting, Plutus had told the BBC the development was “not a renewable technology, but an essential component in supporting the increase in renewable and low carbon energy”.
About 100 people attended the meeting which saw it turned down.
A planning report recommended approval of the scheme, with conditions. There were also suggestions the decision be deferred for further investigation.
However, councillors said they had heard enough to be concerned the scheme went against the local plan and against the authority’s declared climate emergency.
Ten councillors refused it, while three voted for a deferral.”
PLEASE REGISTER TO VOTE
This is now vitally important if you want to have your say in which way this country goes. It’s easy and takes less than 5 minutes. If you don’t vote, you don’t care and you lose the right to whinge if you don’t get the result you want:
3 mile walk on unlit tracks and through farmyard safe for East Devon kids says DCC
“Parents in East Devon say they fear for the safety of their children after being told they have to walk nearly three miles to school on an unlit country track going through farm yards.
They say the route is dangerous and transport should be provided for the journey from Black Horse to Clyst Vale Community College near Exeter.
Devon County Council maintains the route is safe.”
“After the prorogation coup, what’s left of the British constitution?”
“The contemptuous ease with which the Johnson-Cummings regime has attempted to cripple parliamentary consideration of alternatives to a no-deal Brexit by proroguing parliament raises serious issues about the remaining value of the UK’s ‘unfixed constitution’.
This controversy comes after a prolonged period in which the executive under Theresa May used every micro-institutional weapon to blackmail MPs into accepting its deal.
Patrick Dunleavy argues that the UK has slipped into having a failed constitution, where core democratic institutions are contaminated by rigged micro-institutions. The control of power has become dominated by a bunch of executive tricks, and an uncodified ‘constitution’ no longer provides any predictable or worthwhile constraints on government action.
Yet it may be only a small step from creating a failed constitution to becoming some version of a failed state. …”
After the prorogation coup, what’s left of the British constitution?
East Devon Watch 