Month: April 2025
Tomorrow is polling day – make sure it’s Paul
I’ve spent the afternoon canvassing in Seaton and there is a definitely a Reform surge, as well as surprisingly resilient support for the Conservatives. If you don’t want either of these parties to win, please Vote for Paul Arnott, the Liberal Democrat candidate, the only candidate with a long track record of fighting for Seaton and Colyton.
Please don’t waste your vote on either the Labour or the Independent candidate, since neither has any chance of winning and you could help either Reform or the Tories sneak in.
VOTING IS FROM 7 a.m. TO 10 p.m.
The local threat from Trump UK
Leafleting in Seaton for Paul Arnott, a man makes a point of coming out of his house and handing the leaflet back to me. “We don’t want this rubbish’, he says. It’s happened a couple of times before – always a man, always on the wrong side of 50. These angry older men don’t care about local issues, only immigration, and the signs are they’re voting for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
Reform claims that ‘Britain is broken’, forgetting to mention that – in so far as this is true – it was Brexit, Farage‘s big project, that broke it. ‘Reform will fix it’, they say, while praising Donald Trump who is busy wrecking world trade. If Brexit and Trump are anything to go by, ‘Reform will f–k it up’, would be more accurate.
Next Thursday, make sure that the angry old men don’t get their way in Seaton & Colyton. Remember that in 2013, Farage’s first party, UKIP, came second here with over 1,300 votes.
We need to rally round Paul (right), a genuine local candidate with a strong track record. Don’t waste your vote on Labour, who like Reform and the Tories haven’t even got a local candidate. And don’t vote for John Heath, who although a good local councillor in Beer & Branscombe, can only take enough votes across the area to let Reform or the Tories sneak in.
Seaton & Colyton candidates announced
The candidates for the County Council election are now confirmed:
Paul Arnott (Lib Dem), the only candidate to publish where they live (in Colyton)
John Heath (Independent) who doesn’t say where he lives (but actually it’s in Beer)
Ben Ingham (Conservative) from Lympstone (Conservatives over there have obviously rejected as a candidate – why should we vote for him here?)
Paul Knott (Labour) from Exeter (they too couldn’t find anyone local to stand)
Jim Walsh (Reform UK), Donald Trump’s man, who also lives somewhere else in East Devon (but hasn’t said where).
So – only two local candidates. Paul Arnott has been active in local campaigns, against the Green Wedge and the closure of Seaton Hospital, for the last 15 years. Paul has the experience and reputation across the Seaton and Colyton area to defeat the Conservatives, who won last time. I’m proud to have seconded his nomination and urge everyone to vote for him on May 1st.
Trump’s man wants my vote – but can’t tell me who his candidate is
Donald Trump’s representative in the UK, Nigel Farage, has sent me a leaflet asking me to vote for a reform UK – but there is no indication of the candidate’s name, or even what the name of the ward is. While Trump prepares to break the British economy and dictate our laws, Farage is using oligarch money to trawl for votes based on generalities, with no knowledge or proposals for how our council should be run. Treat this arrogant approach with the contempt it deserves, and vote for a genuine local candidate with some idea where Seaton and Colyton are.
Seaton & Colyton MATTERS 