3 May 2021
Councillor Andy Swain - Teign Valley (TDC)
14 Feb 2021
Cllr Andy Swain
Ward: Teign Valley
Parishes: Ashton ; Bridford ; Christow ; Doddiscombsleigh ; Dunsford ; Hennock ; Tedburn St Mary ; Trusham
Contact information
Mobile: 07756 253908
Email: andrew.swain@teignbridge.gov.uk
Committee appointments
Term of Office
- 07/05/2019 - 13/05/2023
Andy's News
What has happened to Warrington Conservatives?
The Warrington Conservative Party is not what it used to be. There have been several events that have led to this.
WLD
3 May 2021
Self-harm record levels show women’s prisons in crisis
The Liberal Democrats are demanding greater use of effective community sentences for women instead of prison, as new figures reveal that self-harm by women prisoners reached a new record high in 2020.
3 May 2021
Our candidates for the May Elections
Staines South Borough Council By-election Rob Millist Find out more Our introduction to Rob Staines South and Ashford West...
3 May 2021
Candidate Profile: Jo Trigg
Jo Trigg, candidate for Trowbridge Lambrok
3 May 2021
Lord William Wallace writes…Defending liberal values from wealthy reactionaries
The owners of five of the six English football clubs which they planned to hive off into an American-style Super-League are classic 'people from anywhere': three Americans, a Gulf sheikh and a Russian who made billions out of the post-Soviet free-for-all of privatisation. But neither David Goodhart, who popularised the distinction between 'somewheres' and 'anywheres' in his post-Brexit book, The Road to Somewhere: the populist revolt and the future of politics, nor Theresa May, who adopted the phrase in fighting the 2017 election, meant offshore billionaires by it. They were putting the blame for the loss of a sense of local community and national solidarity on 'the liberal elite': people like you and me. Liberals are too nice, and too optimistic about reasoned argument, to fight back against the cynical campaigners of the hard right. Pluto-populism, in the USA and in England, has seen hedge-funders and offshore financiers fund populist politicians to discredit political moderates, telling those left behind
2 May 2021