Devon democracy denied as elections postponed

Posted on January 10, 2025

In the County Council, an unholy alliance of the discredited Conservative Party and Labour has just recommended cancelling May’s county council elections, because the Labour government wants to abolish the council together with the district councils and impose a system of unitary authorities on Devon.

We the voters have not been consulted about the idea, there are no definite plans, and now the whole business will be left in the hands of local politicians who are literally past their sell-by date. It is good to see that Richard Foord and other Lib Dem MPs are opposing this stitch-up.

We must assume that Seaton’s present invisible Conservative county councillor, Marcus Hartnell, who has already decided not to stand for re-election, has gone along with this.