Tory candidate claiming to be “getting on” with the job of ending sewage pollution!

His opponent Paul Arnott, as leader of East Devon District Council, really has started to hold South West Water ro account. David Reed’s claim, below, is all “piss and wind” – Owl

Text reads:

MP candidate is fighting to end our sewage situation.

Ending sewage pollution into our water will-remain a top priority until we get the results that we deserve. For too long our waters have been wilfully neglected and the scale of the abuse is now clear for all to see.

Although a lot of progress has been made over the past year to bring water companies to heel. more needs to be done to empower the regulator, Ofwat. This means giving Ofwat sharper teeth to bite down on water companies that don’t play by the rules.

Our approach is to create kcal change and, if elected, vote for effective national legislation.

David Reed is calling on South West Water (SWW) to be fully visible and accountable to us, their customers. He also wards SWW to expedite their planned network infrastructure upgrades in Exmouth and Exeter East so that we can see a faster reduction in sewage releases and a cut to the use of storm overflows.

If David is elected as our next MP, he wants local people to hold him accountable for this, and he will continue to advocate for clean water policies. We cannot and should not settle for anything less than a complete end to this problem, and David is committed to delivering this for local people.

If David Reed is elected he will continue to pursue Conservative policies of light touch regulation, starving regulators of funds (austerity to fund tax cuts) and a general disregard for our ecology (cutting the green crap). – Owl

Paul Arnott for Exmouth & Exeter East www.eeelibdems.org.uk 

Paul has lived in East Devon and Exeter for more than a quarter of a century, raising a family of four children through local state schools. He has been a prominent campaigner for change at East Devon District Council, previously Conservative for 45 years, and for the last five years has led an alliance of LibDems, Independents and Greens as Leader of the Council. He has led  causes across the constituency, from at last delivering Cranbrook a town centre and supermarket, to opening up democratic involvement around Placemaking in Exmouth, and distributing hundreds of thousands of pounds in business and poverty support through the pandemic. He believes that, with respect to others, the real data shows beyond doubt that only he can beat the incumbent Conservatives here, and so does former candidate Claire Wright who has endorsed his campaign.

Below, you can read more about Paul’s priorities for the new constituency of Exmouth and Exeter East – which following boundary changes includes the East Devon wards of Broadclyst, Budleigh & Raleigh, Clyst Valley, Cranbrook, Exe Valley, Exmouth Brixington, Exmouth Halsdon, Exmouth Littleham, Exmouth Town, Exmouth Withycombe Raleigh, Whimple & Rockbeare, and Woodbury & Lympstone, as well as the Exeter City wards of Pinhoe, St Loye’s, and Topsham – as well as some of his experiences as Leader at East Devon and his personal biography.

You can get in touch with Paul via email at paularnott@eeelibdems.org.uk or on social media @PaulArnottLD.

“I’m backing Paul to win. He is decent, hard working and tough, but incredibly compassionate with a laser-like focus, leaving no stone unturned when justice is at stake. Paul will make  a strong and wonderful MP.” Claire Wright, former Independent candidate for East Devon. 

Topics covered on the website include:

My Priorities for Exmouth & Exeter East

• Real Action on Sewage Spills
• Standing Up for Our NHS
• Quality Homes, in the Right Place
• Backing Local Business

My Record at East Devon

About Paul (Paul, like Richard Foord standing in next-door Honiton & Sidmouth, has had a real world career)

This is an unusually readable and informative political website – Owl