No taxation without representation. Its time to STOP paying the illegal and corrupt council tax in these 29 councils.
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Labour will delay elections for 29 councils in a bid to “repair the broken foundations of local government”, the Government has announced – the second year that elections have been postponed amid a Labour slump in the polls. The Telegraph has more.
Steve Reed, the Local Government Secretary, told the Commons on Thursday that 29 areas would have their elections postponed and would not go ahead as planned in May.
He said he had “listened to what councils have told me” and had assessed more than 350 representations from local authorities.
Mr Reed said that out of 136 scheduled local elections, “the vast majority will go ahead as planned”.
Ministers have insisted that some local elections needed to be delayed to allow for a reorganisation of local government.
Some areas have two tiers of councils, with each tier handling different responsibilities. Ministers are replacing these with single unitary authorities which handle all local government services.
Reed and Sir Keir Starmer are relying on an obscure clause in the 2000 Local Government Act, which gives ministers the power to delay votes if there are exceptional circumstances.
The Telegraph has launched a Campaign for Democracy which calls for the clause to be scrapped. That would force ministers to seek a full vote in Parliament for any delay to elections....<<<Read More>>>...
