Exeter

may I thank you for the story today relating to car parking charges and referencing Exeter and unitary status. We residents of Exeter should be given more information about the effect of this fatally flawed bid to stand on our own.For example, will we have guarantees that car parking charges will not rise above the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the first ten years of unitary status. Can we have guarantees that no subsidies at all will be given to stagecoach to run services within Exeter. Can we have any guarantees that bus services will not be withdrawn unless a subsidy is paid. Can we have any guarantee that the cost of residents only car parking permits will not rise, again above the CPI. Can we have any guarantee that no Exeter High Schools will effectively 'go private' by accepting Foundation Status or Centres of Excellence.With regard to cancer treatment can anybody guarantee that services at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital will not be transferred to Plymouth. Our own MP, Ben Bradshaw must start one of now famous campaigns to prevent such action. After all he is not only MP for Exeter, he is also Minister for the South West and a Health Minister. If he says he can do nothing because of a conflict of interest then, as I have said before about other issues, 'what is the point' of him being our MP if he can do or say nothing.Will Ben ever write a book, or even a letter, explaining his involvement in the Exeter unitary status bid. Were we on the list or not Ben, your silence on this matter is deafening.Finally, how much will be saved on our council tax by being unitary. Will there be congestion charges. Will there be cahrages for waste collection from private households. We, the residents demand answers o these questions before the decisions are made. This is meant to be a democrac after all, or is it.