What do anti-Tory voters do where Conservatives have a more or less complete grip on all levels of government, despite only getting a minority of the votes? Where has Labour's abandonment of its local voters - by failing to reform the electoral system, a failure that neither Corbyn nor Smith is really concerned about -… Continue reading We need to talk about Devon
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Development resistance threatens election upset in Devon
My surprising local angle on Britain's 2015 General Election. At the last election, in 2010, I was in Brighton, and my comment on the battle between Caroline Lucas' Greens and Labour was much-read. This time I'm in East Devon, where local campaigns against property development and hospital closures, and for local democracy, are having an impact which… Continue reading Development resistance threatens election upset in Devon
Martin Shaw 