🏛️ Politics 17h ago · Dan Taylor

Local elections don’t matter

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Local elections do not matter, and whoever you elect will act in the same sad way as their predecessors, under the same constraints that make local government an impotent arm of the centralised British state.



Even councils that seemed to have done everything right are now failing. Barking and Dagenham was a crucible of Starmerism. After the British National Party temporarily became the local opposition in the mid-2000s following demographic change and widespread dismay with the Labour council

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