Controversial Tory councillor shouted ‘migrants are a danger to British women’ outside hotel housing women asylum seekers
The complaint to Exeter City Council about Tory councillor Alison Sheridan concerns far more than ‘wearing official ID’ at a far-right protest outside the Hampton hotel at Exeter Airport, as the BBC reported. She also shouted out, ‘Migrants are a threat to British women’, and this was part of the complaint. However, this has not been reported – although video showing her doing this was sent by the complainant to BBC SW Spotlight reporters last Friday.
In video posted on YouTube by a far-right activist, she can also be seen saying that Nigel Farage’s mass deportation policy is ‘brilliant’. ‘I want mass deportations’, she says.
When I was an Independent member of Devon County Council four years ago, there was no Tory councillor who would have done what Sheridan did. It is now for the Conservative Party to decide if she represents them. Even Reform have suspended councillors for less.
The BBC must also explain why they failed to report her intimidatory racist outburst, delivered at a site housing over a hundred vulnerable people, mostly women and children.
Protecting asylum seekers in airport hotel against far-right intimidation
On Saturday, we went to a counterprotest organised by Stand Up Against Racism Exeter against far-right activists who are trying to harass asylum seekers living in the Hampton by Hilton hotel at Exeter Airport. The asylum seekers are mainly women and children, and after we left (we were there for two hours), the far-rightists tried to surround women from the hotel, including one with a baby in a pram, as they got on the bus. They stood up against the bus windows, in a clear attempt to intimidate these young and already vulnerable individuals.
The far right have targeted the hotel for 5 consecutive weeks – there were 30 of them this week, but around 80 of us. Who knows how much worse it would be if we weren’t there. So long as they continue, Stand Up to Racism will be there, and we hope to join them again. Let me know if you would like to help, and sign up to follow Stand Up to Racism on Facebook.
‘Tipping points’ experts, meeting in Exeter, issue urgent warning
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Minutes of flawed Green Wedge planning decision challenged
Congratulations to Cllr Eileen Wragg for continuing to press this issue.
Seaton revetment works planning application
EDDC have finally submitted the planning application for the revetment repairs between Seaton Esplanade and Seaton Hole. The reference is 25/0968/MFUL and the closing date for comments is 11 June. I haven’t looked at it yet, but was told a couple of months ago that the work would be done later this year (end of summer or early autumn).
Seaton & Colyton MATTERS 