Cllr Steve Horner

15/10/2026

Callum Miller, the Lib Dem MP for Bicester & Woodstock, had one job: to represent and protect his constituents — including the people of Piddington. Yet yesterday in Parliament he backed his Party’s open borders stance and helped Labour by abstaining. He did not even vote with his own belief or conscience. That is typical Lib Dem behaviour.

Our own MP for Newton Abbot did the same. He abstained with Miller and the other Lib Dem MPs. This should not surprise anyone. A year ago, in his District Councillor role, he voted against my motion in Teignbridge District Council. That motion simply asked the Council to inform, consult, prioritise and protect local residents against such placements.

He and his Lib Dem colleagues voted it down. I can only conclude that they do not trust local people with information about placements, and do not care enough to prioritise or protect them from undocumented young men arriving from dangerous places.

When you next vote — for the Council or for Parliament — remember how the Lib Dems chose foreign, unverified young men over the safety and wellbeing of their own residents.

04/10/2026

There’s a public meeting to save our Torbay Hospital.

Learn about how the ICB and NHS Trust plan to close acute and emergency services at Torbay.

Learn what you can do to save your hospital.

02/10/2026

Have you ever stopped to think about what you would do in an emergency? Floods, fires, extreme heat or cold, power cuts, and other sudden events can affect whole communities or just parts of our towns and villages.

We all know that the “blue‑light services” are usually first on the scene. But many people do not realise that County, District, Town and Parish Councils also have important roles. Their officers and elected members help support residents and keep local areas safe.

This morning I joined an online briefing run by Teignbridge District Council’s Emergency Planning Team. I was impressed by the clear planning and strong professionalism shown by the officers. Their work helps make sure Teignbridge is ready to support residents during community emergencies.

If you want to prepare yourself, your family, your home, and your neighbours, these links are a good place to start:

https://www.teignbridge.gov.uk/community-and-people/emergency-planning/emergency-planning/
https://www.devoncommunities.org.uk/projects/devon-community-resilience-forum

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11/09/2026

The goverment has given more than £2.6Bn to charities. This includes £100m's for asylum seekers and migrants.

So, in addition to the direct cost of landing, housing, feeding and supporting asylum seekers and migrants we are indirectly throwing even more money at them via charities.

Last night I attended a local Parish Meeting to discuss how they were going to keep public toilets open in their villiage. The District Council is selling off assets or disposing of assests to cut costs. We are throwing billions of pounds at asylum seekers and migrants yet can barely afford to have public toilets open for British Communities. The Parish precept (tax) will need to rise just to be civilised enough to have public toilets.

The Establishment clear hates it's own people and is obsessed with being idological and with suicidal empathy, and showing how morally superior they are. What's morally superior about about being Oikophobic.

When will the middle classes, Lib Dem, Greens, Labour and Wet Tory politicians and voters wake up and see that they are destroying our British society, communities and nation?

STOP BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

22/08/2026

In my recent post which was copied to Teignmouth and Shaldon Voice I am unable to reply or message anyone asking me questions. I appear to have been restricted. I have no idea if its Facebook doing it.

20/08/2026

By now many of you may have seen this publication which is for the 1000's of young men asylum seekers coming ashore uninvited, and being placed in our communities against our will. We know from the many crimes being committed by a proportion of these migrants that this document is not an academic exercise.

When I became a Councillor last year I saw protecting residents as my highest priority as an elected person, and so my motion submitted to TDC for 1-Transparency, 2-For protecting local people when we know nothing of their background, and 3-Pushing back on the Home Office and their agents who wish to place them in our community against our wishes.

I have made no secret of my lack of trust of our national government in these matters. It's time they listened to us and not try to silence us or our concerns.

16/08/2026

Many of you will already know that the NHS are planning to close Torbay Hospital as an acute medicine hospital, turning into little more than a cottage hospital department with some out patient services.

The process became obvious more than a year ago when the hospital tried to close the well nationally respected Out-of-Hours Cardiac unit at Torbay, and transfer it's workload to Exeter. Many local people got together and protested outside the hospital, including our very own (the late) Ann Widdecombe.

Former Nurse Susie Colley et al gathered other concerned people to challenge and pushback, and created the campaign now known as "Save Torbay Hospital". My wife (DCC Cllr Heather Horner) and I were invited to hear Susie speak at a public meeting of the Kingskerswell campaign group, and to provide support and spread the word.

Further evidence of plans for Torbay hospital to cease being an acute medicine hospital has come from hospital staff, and the rather opaque document "Our Strategy" The strategic plan for 2026 - 2031.

It's fluffy and misleading contents, when stripped of misleading language, still shows the essence of the ICB plans to transfer expert and emergency services to Exeter and Plymouth.

All three hospital Emergency departments are busy, often overwhelmed. In what universe does closing one of the busy ED's not impact on the remaining ones. We are seeing house building increase with increased population. In summer the population of the Torbay area doubles from 200,000 people to 400,000. Given the state and busyness of our roads, how many people will die to simply satisfy the Labour government's mania for centralisation. They have done this in London, but where accessing hospitals for emergencies is still reasonable and practical.

Across the country hospitals like Torbay's have been closed using the same dishonest dismantling methods.

I urge you to join the "Save Torbay Hospital" Campaign. It will ulimately need to go to the HIgh Court to prevent the unnecessary deaths that will result from butchering our Torbay Hospital. We will need to raise that money as a matter of urgency.

They didn't really listen to the people on Teignmouth Hospital, so it will need a higher order of support from the community to save Torbay hospital.

I, my wife (County Councillor Heather Horner) and indeed many councillors of all parties will be fighting to save our hospital.

Together we can save the hospital that may ultimately save us and our loved ones. Public meetings are now being organised across the area, including Shaldon and Teignmouth. Watch this space for dates and venues.

Save Torbay Hospital is dedicated to protecting and enhancing healthcare services at Torbay Hospital and within the wider community of Torbay and South Devon.We believe that every member of our community deserves timely, equitable, and effective healthcare, and we are committed to ensuring Torbay Ho...

28/07/2026

It was an interesting day at Forde House at the TDC Full Council meeting. We covered a range of issues including a motion to begin consultation for National Landscape designation of a section the River Teign estuary. Sadly there has been a lot of misinformation about the nature of the motion resulting in unnecessary concern to residents, who emailed me in their dozens.

This regulation would exclude the Port, harbour, Teignmouth, Shaldon and Riviera boatyard, yet afford significant protection to the section West of the bridge--from large scale house building and to place more anti-pollution obligations on South West Water and the Environment Agency.

Sadly, a discrete request by Cllr Jane Tayor for a one minute silence in the Chamber in memory of Ann Widdecombe was refused by the Chair.

11/07/2026

I attended the National Emergency Briefing last night at The Pavillions. I was disappointed by the blatant emotional sales pitch and call to action. In the film, we saw people and celebs share their fears. Those fears quickly spread to our audience.

An audience member noted that the worst-case warming paths in the film (like RCP8.5 and SSP5-8.5) are too extreme. Experts no longer view them as realistic. The extreme paths matches early claims from Al Gore that missed the mark. For instance, he predicted that Kilimanjaro would have no snow within ten years, and that sea levels would rise by meters in just a few decades.

The film presenters asked us to lobby our MPs. They want us to push for the fixes shown in the movie. However, we need more open debate first. We must inform people about the main issues. We need real answers that fix the problem without creating worse side effects.

Governments do not have all the answers. The current Net-Zero plan threatens to make us poorer. It denies us the funds we need to adapt to floods, protect farming, and safeguard our health, etc. Because of this, I am organising a series of open debates to share facts on the science and discuss practical choices. I will advertise dates in due course.

I want us to truly "inform, debate, and act." Right now, we need to focus more on becoming informed and having honest debates. We should not rush into action just because a political group eggs us on. This is not climate denial. It's a common-sense way to clamly make sound choices for our local area and our country.

18/06/2026

It’s important that the residents of Teignbridge, and indeed Devon realise that Local Government Reorganisation has far reaching consequences.

It’s quite likely that the Labour government will compel the new Unitary Authorities to reduce their indebtedness and budgets. Sale of assets is one such solution.

Its important we find ways of securing our parks etc. Town and Parish councils are an obvious steward for these assets, perhsos even the CTC model, but there are serious challenges ahead.

As you may be aware, over the weekend there have been some concerns raised on social media regarding statutory notices published in relation to disposal of some our public open spaces.

Teignbridge District Council has been reviewing its property and land portfolio for several years as part of its long-term plans for how we can most effectively run services and use our assets for the benefit of the community. These plans are aimed at reducing financial pressure on council services.

As part of this, the Council has been talking with partners, including town and parish councils, about the future of some assets so they can be managed locally where appropriate, or disposed of on the open market.

To comply with relevant legislation the Council is required to advertise any disposal of public open space for a period of two consecutive weeks.

This is a routine part of the process and helps make sure it is open and transparent.

The assets named in the notices are: Cromwell Way, Bovey Tracey; Palace Meadow, Chudleigh; Morningside, Dawlish; Heath Close, Heath Hill, Prince Rupert Way and Naseby Drive, Heathfield; and Ashburton Road and Courtenay Park, Newton Abbot.

The notices were issued on 28 May, and members of the public can send any objections or comments about the proposed disposals to Teignbridge Legal Services until 18 June.

We are sorry for any unnecessary alarm caused by the publication of these statutory notices.