NEARLY four million voters face disenfranchisement this May as the government moved to cancel more local elections.More than a third of councils in England due to face the electorate have asked for their polls to be scrapped under the pretext of local government reorganisation.Most of the authorities seeking to dodge the electoral bullet are Labour-led, with the party facing massive losses on present polling.
  • luisgutz@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    Running a series of elections for short-lived zombie councils will be costly, time-consuming and will take scarce resources away from front-line services like fixing potholes and social care.

    Good thing then we are still spending 1.8billion in a Digital ID scheme no one wants.