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General Discussion

If you like your rock music Ol' Lady Biker, the Lansdowne has some good covers bands on at weekends.  It used to have a bit of a reputation but it seems fine these days. It also has acoustic artists in the front bar early Friday evenings.   Dawlish is also blessed with a small but perfectly formed theatre, the Shaftesbury, which happens to have a play on this week.   And keep your diary free for ...

Election 2015
6 Apr 2015

Yes, they'll say anything to get voted in but what they deliver is entirely different to the empty rhetoric of their promises.  They'll even stab their colleagues in the front as well as the back.   If only national politics was a honourable as local politics.

4 Apr 2015

In theoy neilh but they've still got too much to prove.  Unfortunately they've not done a very good job in Brighton where I am guessing it was theirs to lose.

30 seconds or 30 minutes, it doesn't warrant calling someone a deceitful liar.   This incessant anger is quite sinister.

4 Apr 2015

Ok Margaret.    So are you standing in the forthcoming council elections and if so won't your family and work commitments mean you'll be missing more?  It's surely a fair question.  You have been very crtitcal of town planning matters but if you're not at the meetings and you don't make it your business to find out what you've missed you'll be short changing those who think you represent their ...

4 Apr 2015

I think it's because you asked questions of the the town council planning committee and referred to them as 'they'.  Given Michael was able to answer the questions I wanted to know if there had been a recent change of membership.  Nothing to have an argument about.

4 Apr 2015

I don't know how you found that Lynne, when I searched the portal by postcode it only came up with Leadstone applications.    Michael, are the the current DTC planning committee members? Chairman: Councillor Bob Vickery Vice Chairman: Councillor Mrs Pauline Bloomfield Councillor Harrie Burrowes Councillor Mr Gregory Fenne ...

That's just the kind of supercilious response we've come to expect from you Margaret.  But well done on making it to that meeting at least.  I see from the recent minutes that your attendance record is still woeful.

Councillor Behaviour
13 Mar 2015

Who are the members of this working party?   And why these oblique reference to other councillors without naming them?  Is it a secret?