There's not much that second-tier districts do. Council housing, refuse and street cleaning, car parks, planning, council tax and electoral admin, parks and recreation... That's about it. D… (View Post)

Harder for Conservatives to dump a duff leader if there aren't bad council election results to blame her for. Hashtagfivedeechess (View Post)

.. Fairly normal, though. The GLC elections that were due in 1985 didn't happen because there wasn't much point when the GLC was going to be abolished the following year. The same happened … (View Post)

Some possibilities. 1. Numbers will come down, due mostly to things the previous government did to retighten rules that they had previously overloosened. And whilst it's a bit unfair for the cur… (View Post)

Redcliffe-Maud (which is probably pretty close to the council map we end up with) was over fifty years ago. The brute logic hasn't really changed since then. (View Post)