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
East Devon Watch 
Simon Jupp’s election leaflet ( another for the bin) in Honiton and Sidmouth, he tells us how he is fighting for the community hospitals – which as he says the local people paid for in building and supporting and that they rightly belong to the local community. But hang on – it was his lot – the Conservatives that did away with our hospitals and would not listen to people.
No wonder we are confused.
Anyway it is Richard Foord who who done most of the fighting for us in Parliament and supporting the local community.
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Unfortunate timing for this candidate. Yesterday the Financial Times reported that OFWAT is planning to reduce the level of fines on water companies and increase the allowable levels of pollution. Any Tory who claims that he or she is going to do anything to control the water companies is lying as demonstrated in the votes where Simon Jupp toed the party line and voted against (or at least abstained) legislation to control the water companies.
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