Budleigh Past and Present

  Yes, Budleigh welcomes everyone! Well, the nation finally voted for Brexit; for, in the words of a Hungarian academic who had once taught at the University of Exeter, ‘the comforting Englishness and timeless values of Budleigh Salterton’. Stephen Pogány's article, Budleigh Salterton: Brexit And The Quest For A Mythic England , can be read at https://www.socialeurope.eu/author/istvan-pogany/ Professor Stephen Pogány, pictured above, remembered the fine summer weekends that he had spent with his late wife on the pebbly beach of what he described as our ‘wonderfully retro’ town with its splendidly evocative name.   The article that he published on the world wide web back in June, a few days after the Referendum result, was of course seized on by at least one local journalist, keen to show that Budleigh had made its voice heard in this most unexpected upheaval of the B...

'Have you decided which way you will vote in the EU Referendum on 23 June?' asks Cllr Alan Dent on behalf of Budleigh in Business.  'If not why not come along to our “Open Meeting’ at 3:00pm on Saturday 7 May in the Budleigh Public Hall. We’ll have two local MPs one in favour of ‘Remaining’ - Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton) and the other in favour of leaving - Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbott). We can listen to their views and ask them any question we like to help us make up our minds. This is a strictly non political exercise designed to give us some answers to many of the questions that simply don’t appear in the press or on TV. Entry is free and there will be teas and coffees as well as a cash bar to help digest the information! Any money we make from this and a raffle will go towards the cost of hiring the Public Hall and the PA system. It should be an informative and fun event.  We look forward to welcoming you.'