See yesterday’s post for details.

A spokesperson for Mr Foord said: “When we talk to people across Mid and East Devon, they tell us they want their representatives to play it straight and be honest.

“Links that look genuine but simply redirect to Conservative websites only serve to arouse suspicion and undermine trust.

“People deserve better from their MP, and at the election they have a chance to demand better by voting Liberal Democrat.”

Carol Vorderman on “X” under heading: DIRTY ELECTION TACTICS?

Dear @simonjamesjupp

The URLs of http://richardfoord.uk, http://richardfoord.co.uk and http://richardfoord.com all link directly to your website (I have screen recorded all links incase someone attempts to delete).  Have you been aware of this? And are you, your staff or anyone you know responsible for this?

Yours

Carol V (who you seem to have inadvertently blocked even though I’d never heard of you before now)

And Simon Jupp himself who according to the Exmouth Journal “has not yet commented on this.”

Martin Shaw writes:

A de facto cross-party coalition is building up around Richard Foord, our Liberal Democrat MP, to be re-elected for the new Honiton & Sidmouth constituency, which includes Seaton. Last month the Labour candidate, Jake Bonetta, urged local members to go to Plymouth to campaign in the General Election, rather than campaigning here (although Labour will still be fighting for council seats and the police/crime commissioner).

Now Henry Gent, the Green candidate, has said on Twitter that Honiton/Sidmouth members should go to Bristol to help win the Greens a second MP. Labour, Greens, and Independents like me – we all agree it’s essential to keep the Tories and Simon Jupp out, and get Richard Foord back in. It’s the best way for us to be involved in the big change that the election will bring.

Council has Exmouth’s back – Tim  reminisces on “times past” under the “Old Guard” in EDDC  

Paul Arnott’s comment on Town Council meetings reminds me of the fights we had with the old EDDC over transparency. At one time the EDDC meetings about The Splash/Sideshore, or as I prefer to call it, Cohen’s Folly, was restricted to a small group of people who held their meetings in private and initially didn’t produce or publish proper minutes. It took quite a bit of argument to change that, to get minutes made and published, and more general transparency. I recall the EDDC officer running the matter publishing draft minutes by accident once, and when challenged, they produced a final record with some interesting differences.

It is worth comparing an EDDC that records and publishes many of it’s meetings on YouTube, making access easier to all who may want it, to the old EDDC. I remember when Williams, Diviani, Moulding and others were running the show and government allowed any council who so wanted, to allow citizen reporting and filming of public meetings. The old EDDC wouldn’t have any of it, we had to wait until government obliged councils to allow such recording, and even then EDDC tried to curtail it by asking for notice (a condition that was not a requirement by gov).

Yes, Exmouth seems to be split on everying you care to ask its citizens about. Some do a bit of digging, others show no interest until someone raises it on Facebook and then asks about why didn’t they know about it. And of course there is a hard core who say you will never change anything in Exmouth- I think they may still be unaware that things have changed considerably, not least in matters of transparency and what group runs the council.

Knowing Paul pretty well, and bearing his comments about Romans and watching our back, I am quite certain I shall never need to say to him “Et Tu Brute?”