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Lib Dem activists having fun in April 2016

Exeter City Council results update

Liberal Democrats had another tough set of local elections on 5 May, fought within new larger ward boundaries. We worked hard in more areas than before and fielded a strong slate of candidates in 19 of the 39 seats on offer.

AF
30 Jun 2016
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Adrian Fullam

Does Exeter Want a New Pool or a New Theatre?

Does Exeter want a new pool or a new theatre? That is the question hotly debated in the Express & Echo over recent weeks. It's a fairly meaningless debate for now as the Labour-dominated Council has already decided on Exeter's behalf.

16 Sep 2015
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Community Patrol van

Exeter Labour ask you to choose their £4m cuts

Speak up to save YOUR services Exeter Liberal Democrats have been fighting a positive campaign to prioritise our local services, like community patrol and street sweeping. Labour's priority for Exeter is a £20 million swimming pool. They are asking residents what sacrifices YOU will make in order to fund this luxury facility. A further £10 million will be borrowed (in addition to the current debt of £35 million) to deliver this project.

CSB
28 Oct 2014
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Exeter Labour Council running out of credit

Your favourite Council cuts on a postcard please because we are now in it together! Labour's chickens are coming home to roost, and their leader, Pete Edwards, is in a flap. He is asking residents where to make cuts to save money. Try this, Pete. How about not spending £57000 on a consultation trying to pin the blame on the government. Perhaps look at the latest taxpayer funded Citizen newspaper headlining £750000 on a running track. How about not blowing the Council's assets and then spending £35 million pounds of borrowed money the Council never had, which has turned an annual investment income of £1.3 million in 2008 to an annual debt cost of £2.3 million in 2015. This switch is about £3.6 million per year off the services we used to enjoy, not far off the amount Pete wants us to find for him now.

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