Fewer people are voting in elections. The Government is publicising peoples' right to vote coupled with a right to say 'No Vote - No Say'.
Perversely, the Government's introduction of cabinet-style control of local councils enacts their very own slogan. Rank and file councillors will have no vote in local councils and no say. Sadly this is happening perhaps because local councils are the last institution to be milked by the system of greed so prevalent today.
Coun Tony Pelton,
High Green, Catterick.
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