There are plenty of changes going on in Exeter. But as you perhaps would expect, not everyone is happy with them.
Indeed, one person, writing into our sister print title the Express and Echo, questions whether councillors are deliberately running the city into the ground. They say that they ignore public opinion, come up with unwanted schemes, and fritter the money away on pointless projects that only benefit the minority and not the majority.
They added that it seems that all those who run Exeter are 'living in Disneyland' - and yet will soon knock on your door and make more promises of what they will do if they are elected.
Read the full letter below
Have our councillors taken it upon themselves to run Exeter into the ground?
They pretend to listen to the public but in reality they have already made up their minds in pressing ahead with their madness. The road system was bad, but the powers-that-be who seem to know it all have taken it upon themselves to press ahead with stupid cycle lanes that are hardly ever used, closing off roads making long diversions and turning what was once a manageable road system into gridlock by moving more vehicles onto to roads that were just coping.
They have wasted millions on cycle paths yet continue to ignore all the potholes. It’s as though the working class of Exeter are no longer welcomed in the city, where the council is pushing the lower classes further and further away from the city and catering more and more for our over privileged; every year they say they want to build social homes yet all we see is affordable homes being built that nobody can afford, student flats being built upon every piece of land.
It seems that all those who run Exeter are living in Disneyland. They say they care; well I suppose they do, so long as you cough up your rents and council taxes like good little boys and girls and not make a fuss. Really most of this money should be coming from the Government. However, because of the weakness of our MPs and councillors we are left to cough up, so that they can fritter the money away on pointless projects that only benefit the minority and not the majority.
Soon these faceless councillors will be knocking at our doors with their false smiles looking all concerned lying on what they will do if you vote for them, but you can rest assured once they get into power you can kiss all the promises they made goodbye, and you will be forgotten and they will get back to as they always have – ignoring you.
Andrew Scutcher
By email
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