Exeter Unitary bid

so Roy Slack has lost his seat and the labour group are looking for a new leader of their party on Exeter City Council, and apparently the councillors think that this is nothing at all to do with the Exeter bid to be a Unitary Authority, Echo Saturday 5th May. Now we are told that very few people have apparently been raising this as an issue on the doorstep during the recent City Council elections.I thought that there was some sort of purdah on this issue so none of the councillors could raise it anyway as an issue or was it only the County Council which could not get involved. You can't have it both ways.Well I think that if Exeter City Council think that then they are wrong. There must be a referendum on this important issue. Take one of the stakeholders who may receive financial backing from ECC and they are asked to submit their opinion on the bid. Now surely any sane, rational person would say that there is a conflict of interest, if they say no to the bid would they not be in danger of losing their funding, politicians after all can be like spoilt children when they don't get their own way. They have elephantine memories, albeit very selective.So, if you think that there must be a referendum then be at the City Gates Hotel, Cellar bar on Tuesday 8th May at 7.00 for the inaugral meeting of the Exeter Unitary Bid Resistance Movement.