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On that occasion Martin tried but failed. Since then his record on delivering and campaigning on community needs - not just for the larger community that he now represents in NE Dawlish, but for the wider parish also - has been impressive.
No, I'm not "staunch Tory".
Thanks @Gary Taylor , Prior? Not also post the 2015 election? Not sure about that. That Cockwood vanity project failure was kept pretty schtum wasn't it? it was far from popular you see. It was not well received. Nothing to do with lack of resource. That's just rubbish. He needed more signatories, but failed despite a strange notion that a Cockwood parish would extend to Hensford farm and ...
@Burnside you're a staunch Tory right? You've got some audacity to bang on about corruption by other parties. e.g. Cameron and the Panama papers.
When it comes to tactical voting things can get very murky indeed. In the Richmond Park bye election last December a very serious allegation was made about the Greens accepting a huge bung to stand aside in order to make it easier for the LibDems to win the seat. This, of course, was vehemently denied. I don't believe the denials for one second. ...
As you intimate, Martin Wrigley has indeed championed Dawlish matters since becoming elected in 2015 as Town Councillor for NE Dawlish (which includes Cockwood). On the matter of the consideration of a separate parish for Cockwood prior to this appointment, it is my understanding that while the concept was well received by residents, the conclusion following the consultation exercise carried out ...
@Gary Taylor if you read the links to articles by monbiot and gilbert in open democracy you'd see the reservations about corbyn that i also share. I think Corbyn is a principled and his values are sound as are his points, I think he needed to be far more ruthless with the Blairites and failed to transform the Labour party and explain why neoliberalism has failed. You don't know what ...
@HuwMatthews2 You asked me who I was 'looking to bring into power'; I take it you mean 'vote for' as I have no real influence with one vote over who gains power and who does not. You see one side of the conflict in Northern Ireland, I have family who died at the hands of the British. Are you from Northern Ireland? My relatives would suggest it was not your war to fight. Corbyn ...
An interesting proposition Viaduct - but one likely only to increase the Tory majority in the Newton Abbot seat and just about everywhere else in the south-west. It would be great to be able to come to an accomodation that would allow just two candidates to battle it out toe-to-toe, but Theresa May appears to have eyed the green shoots of a 'progressive alliance' forming against her - and decided ...
Once again, Indy Scot, you are missing the point. You may think Corbyn is the best thing since sliced bread, but most traditional Labour party supporters think he's toast. With JC in charge, the party is destined to remain as divided as the Conservatives. In the now deep-blue south-west, the only real opposition (outside of city walls) is the Lib Dems. Given people have come to ...