This may tempt fate and by the time this article is published, we may be languishing under another late winter storm. However, looking out of my office.
Blackdown House, East Devon District Council s Honiton headquarters. Picture: Dan WIlkins
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Not since Brenda from Bristol said “Not another one” about the snap election called in 2017 has a previously unknown figure in British political life become such an overnight sensation. “You have no authority here, Jackie Weaver, none whatsoever,” snarled the chair of Hemsworth Parish Council. A few more similar snipes later and Jackie Weaver showed she really did, ejecting him from the Zoom meeting altogether.
I could fill this entire newspaper with the similar behaviour I have seen from men in our own local councils. Droning, arrogant, sexist, discourteous, oppressive, and that’s just for starters. Concerned people seeing this stuff on councils around here was what brought the first members of the East Devon Alliance of Independents (EDA) together back in 2013.