Morning all :) Back after a few days in rural Derbyshire exploring one of the other Englands - there are plenty of them. South Derbyshire is a curious mix of wealth - Belper, Matlock and Ashbourne ar… (View Post)

Your experience is or was very different to mine. I will however start by saying most of the Councils I worked for were analogous to pre-Roman Britain - a loose confederation of warring tribes who un… (View Post)

I don't agree with some of that at all. I spent a lot of my professional career in local Government. The first and most obvious point is no two councils are the same - every Council with which I… (View Post)

There's no obligation for a Prime Minister to "seek a mandate" as soon as they enter No.10 if they have not come through the GE route. John Major waited about as long as he could as di… (View Post)

Morning all :) I'm crunching the numbers from last Thursday for my part of the world. The Labour implosion here was dramatic to say the least. In my Ward, the Labour vote share fell from 61% to … (View Post)