Councils To Be Merged In Major Local Government Shake-Up

[Old_Geezer]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0xz4938z9o

 

"District councils could be abolished and more elected mayors introduced across England under new plans for a major redesign of local government."

 

For crying out loud, surely not ?  It's the elected mayors that, seemingly inevitably, begger everything up, every time. Surely they must be thinking of getting rid of those already existing, not creating more if the dashed nuisances ?

[ToraToraTora]

Devolution has been a total disaster.....so lets have more of it! PMSL!

The state should be as small as possible (TGL), end of.

[Peter Pedant]

depends on the Mayor -  andy burnham is doing quite well in Manchester ( and has a comet tail of councillors)

[Peter Pedant]

The state should be as small as possible (TGL), end of.

I think you mean the apparatus of state should be as small as possible -  otherwise TGL wd have sup[rted scots independence

Yeah like Pres Trump ! and put Dr Andrew Wakefield ( measles enthusiast) in charge of health

[Clone]

More skullduggery

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1868595329269964800/vid/avc1/1080x1080/oNmt5U9m6CNFWs2T.mp4?tag=16

[jackthehat]

Prepare for carnage.

The plans for my part of the country are bonkers, utterly bonkers.