So, where is Hugo Swire when you need him?

Does anyone remember our MP - Hugo Swire? I vaguely recall seeing him in Seaton just before he was elected to Parliament but he seems to have disappeared since then.

He apparently used to do surgeries at Seaton Town Hall but they stopped months and months - maybe even years - ago. Could this have anything to do with the new boundaries for MPs - when at the next general election Hugo will not need the votes of people in Axminster, Honiton and Seaton as we will all be transferred to the Honiton and Tiverton seat (current MP - Angela Browning, who retires at the next election, person nominated to fight the seat in her place Neil Parish, currently an MEP in Strasbourg). Where does that leave a voice for Seaton in Parliament I wonder? And what exactly is a "constituency MP"? I thought it meant that they dealt with constituents .....

You would think that he would have something to say when nearly 200 jobs have gone in one week in Seaton but there has been a notable silence. Anyone would think he didn't care about the town. Surely not?

I looked at his website to see when his next surgeries would be - there having been quite a few in Exmouth and Sidmouth last year. Interestingly, it says that to see him you have to make an appointment to go to his office in Woodbury Salterton and no surgeries are scheduled for 2009. He has no email address, nor does the Woodbury Salterton office - just a telephone number (01395 233505 if you are interested).

Anyone know how you get by bus from Seaton to Woodbury Salterton and back again in a day? Or what you do if you are disabled and can just about make it into Seaton town but not to Woodbury Salterton?