This is the moment the Conservatives voted to stop Devon County Council even discussing fire station closures – you have been warned, they are preparing to vote them through at the Fire Authority

Posted on October 4, 2019 Updated on October 4, 2019

Yesterday I tried to propose a motion to Devon County Council to halt the fire station closures. The grainy photo (above) taken from the webcast shows the Conservatives voting as a block to stop it even being discussed. They wanted to refer my motion to the Cabinet who would amend it and bring it back to the Council in December. By then, the Fire Authority – chaired by Colyton’s former county councillor, Sarah Randall-Johnson – will have decided on its proposals at a meeting on 8th November.

Following this disgraceful episode, there can be little doubt that Tory councillors on the fire authority are preparing to vote through the fire station closures. Local people need to increase pressure on all the individual members of the Authority, change their minds.

Below, me urging the Council to discuss the motion.

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6 thoughts on “This is the moment the Conservatives voted to stop Devon County Council even discussing fire station closures – you have been warned, they are preparing to vote them through at the Fire Authority”

DCC Tories block discussion of fire station closures | East Devon Watch said:
October 4, 2019 at 12:38 pm

[…] This is the moment the Conservatives voted to stop Devon County Council even discussing fire station… […]

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Sophie Boswell said:
October 5, 2019 at 9:11 am

You’ll have blood on your hands……..

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Sheila Dorsett said:
October 11, 2019 at 10:46 am

Who can I write to at DCC about the fire station closures? I can’t find anything on their website.

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Fire station closures are getting to be like hospital bed closures, a litmus test of politicians’ support for local communities – my post on the Tories blocking discussion was viewed 932 times on the day it was published. « SEATON & said:
October 13, 2019 at 1:54 pm

[…] be thinking of voting through the fire station closures. I’ve just checked my site stats and this post on how the Tories blocked the County Council discussing the closures was the most viewed ever in a single day on this site – and it’s now been viewed nearly […]

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It’s now clear that if the Conservatives win the election, Colyton, Topsham, Budleigh Salterton and five other local fire stations will be closed « SEATON & COLYTON matters said:
November 26, 2019 at 5:03 pm

[…] the Authority has a majority of Conservative councillors from Devon and Somerset County Councils. Devon Tories already voted, in October, to block a discussion of the fire station closures at the County […]

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Yet again, Devon Conservative councillors block discussion of Colyton, Topsham and 7 other fire stations which are likely to be closed, once the Tories have got a majority « SEATON & COLYTON matters said:
December 6, 2019 at 2:55 pm

[…] allow the vote to be recorded, to protect themselves from criticism. (My picture shows them voting the first time they did this, in October. Yesterday’s webcast is not available to take a still […]

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