Senior Tory spills the beans.

A correspondent reminds Owl that David Reed may be too young to remember Tory Councillor (and ex-member of the “Raving Loony Party”) Stuart Hughes’ all too true account of East Devon District Council’s planning policy circa 2017 under the “build, build, build” strategy – His educational video “We plan anywhere”.

Owl thinks this should be essential viewing for our new MP to get him “up to speed” of how we got into this mess and why the local Tory vote has been tanking ever since.

Stuart Hughes gained further notoriety as the Tory Chairman of EDDC in 2020 who, on the pretext of Covid, cancelled the May 2020 Annual Meeting in a shameful attempt to frustrate the Democratic Alliance and the Independent Progressive Group, led by councillor Paul Arnott taking over power as the majority group within EDDC.

At the time the Tories only held one third of the council seats. This was a denial of democracy.

Stuart Hughes finally resigned as chairman in June 2020. He remains both a District and County Councillor.