SOLD OUT BY EDDC AGAIN.

So EDDC have announced that they intend for a major supermarket to develop the rugby club site. This will kill the centre good and proper.
Having a business of my own and finding it extremely difficult to survive in the current economic climate this news has made my mind up to close my business at the end of this summer.
In towns and cities all over the country communities are fighting to stop the development of supermarkets but EDDC are openly begging them to come to Exmouth. WHY? because EDDC knows full well that a major supermarket will pay them handsomely for the opportunity.

A bad bad day for Exmouth.

i think it will be good to have a new supermarket. people will have more choice and not pay so much for things

You have hit the nail on the head about today's economic climate, that is why us normal folk need these shops as they compete and offer us savings.

Well I am sure all those people that work in supermarkets will be very pleased at holding them in such high esteem. It is not the ones working that I am worried about, it's the dead beats or have no intention of working whether it be in a new supermarket or anywhere else. The whole system of credits and allowances is wrong but unfortunately it is not limited to Exmouth. Last time looked my taxes were not calculated by the area I live !!!!!! The supermarket would offer more jobs, more than I have seen being offered by any new small retainers lately. Your argument about the unemployed conflicts, surely any jobs offered within Exmouth are a bonus, look it up.

The condescension of strangers. *rolls eyes* I've always relied on it.

Obviously the system of welfare isn't wrong. Perhaps to you all benefits are an outrage against the honest hard working blah blah blah but middlebrow Daily Mail politics are of no interest to me or anyone else that got very far past the eleven plus. What I was saying was that supermarkets are subsidised by you. That the taxes which subsidise unemployment or tax credits are not collected locally may be the point for you pragmatically - but morally, if such things register with you, it's of no moment whatsoever. *Someone* will have to pay for a supermarket in Exmouth. I'm sure you won't want to foist the cost of your supermarket on the country as a whole, since you're so dead set against people who want other people to pay their way. And the taxes which are collected in rates and the loss of them will certainly be felt by you locally.

As I attempted to point out the jobs are not quality jobs, they're dispiriting futureless jobs. Stacking petit filou on shelves at 3 in the morning for six quid an hour Fancy it? Want your kids to do it? And yet according to the EDDC website this is their idea of giving Exmouth a future - creating a town for young people. Their dystopian idea of the twenty first century makes Bladerunner look like Mary Poppins.

What we need in Exmouth are employers who train and educate and teach skills. We need employment that relates to the area, which is part of it's identity and part of the community's long term future. Local government should be attracting that kind of business here and fostering it's long term future, not swinging it's handbag under a streetlight hoping for the glad eye from an exploitative multinational.

There's never been one good argument for a supermarket in Exmouth. Not one that stood up to any kind of examination. Ever. And yet here we are with this thing still being forced on us. It's gone way past being anything to do with a supermarket now and become something to do with democracy and democratic accountability, or the lack of it.

I don't need to "show for" a higher intellect. This is how I talk. I have nothing to prove to anyone.

Of course I have no degrading opinion of supermarket staff and your assertion that I do is a disingenuous canard. Precisely the opposite is the case: it's because I have the utmost respect for people that I think it's degrading to make them work for a pittance, surrounded by idiotic motivational posters, with no union representation for their grievances, all night, never seeing their kids, stacking shelves in a warehouse.

I've worked in places like that. I know what they're like. I know first hand the contempt of management for staff, the dangerous work practices which are necessary in order to reach the set targets, the blind eyes which are turned to them, the institutionalised incompetence, the subtle methods of coercion and bullying.

There is no argument for a supermarket in Exmouth town centre. I'm not in the habit of saying absurd things. Despite the yards of ink spent promoting the subject in our newspapers, despite all the corporate propaganda and film flam, despite the EDDC press releases and interactive websites, and rebranded consultations and relaunches of relaunches there has never yet been one reason - not one - for a supermarket in exmouth town centre that made sense. All there's been is a tide of jargonised nonsense.

Do you think the only people who argue for things are people who directly benefit from them? What a bleak little world you must live in. I argue for things because they make sense and because they're just and fair. I don't see that it's any of your business but no, I'm not in receipt of anything from the state. I would never, on principle, accept anything from it.

Instead of demonising people who live on benefits you might more usefully consider the far greater theft perpetrated by the class of people who run this country and the people who publish the newspapers that promote the little englander xenophobia which you seem to have happily taken up. You're being had. But judging by this thread that happens to you a lot.

*Ray Winstone voice*

Sort it aht.

Well if the cap fits. Obviously you are both against a supermarket and nothing will change your opinions. I am just glad something new is coming because at present we have nothing worth writing home about.