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A lasting reminder of our colonial past, enabling us to continue to bathe in the reflected glory of a time when Britannia ruled the waves, a third of the map of the World was red, and any foreign political problem could be solved by the Royal Navy sending a gunboat.

Don't the Welsh, ( and N Irish ), already have local representation ?

Effing stupid thing to do though - handed the Tory media a propaganda open goal.

If the Police feel the need to pry they can apply for the appropriate warrant, they should not have the right to go on fishing expeditions. This will also place a significant burden on Telcos and organisations delivering public access Internet services, as they will have to collate and store the data.

We have never had a vote on PR - the Electoral Reform Society said that a change to AV based on the current constituency map would probably change nothing.

People who currently either vote tactically, or feel that their vote cannot count due to their local demographics, ( a Labour voter in Whitney for instance ), would be able to vote for their party of choice. Such an election would not have produced the result we saw last week.

Will everybody PLEASE acknowledge that this Government, like almost all of those that went before it, was NOT elected by a majority - of either the votes cast or the total electorate. Most voters, in fact nearly 2 thirds of them, did NOT vote Conservative. FACT.

So that's what 'governing for the whole country' means.

This was the first election for 20 years where the Tories had the lowest 'votes per MP' count of the parties taking part.

But Sarnie Saint isn 't American, he's an ex-pat Englishman living in a Commonwealth country.

Over a third of my sections' revenue budget is from external business. The same goes for our HR department. A lot of Local Authorities have traded services.

Typical leftie excuses

Please don't try to equate those with left leaning political sympathies with the socially depraved c()nts that do this sort of thing.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmselect/cmcomloc/191/19105.htm "4. It is important however to put these pay rates in context. Comparisons are often drawn with remuneration for senior jobs in other sectors and in other parts of the public sector. Salary levels for local government sector senior posts are significantly lower than those in the private sector,[9] and indeed lower than those in some other parts of the public sector, such as academia. Even taking account of enhanced pension provision, packages remain much lower for a top council post when compared to the packages on offer for top private sector staff. " Annual remuneration of Chief Executives in the public sector

Go on then, give us an estimate of the percentage of Local Authority or NHS staff that are 'fat cats' - maybe you could start by defining the salary point above which they would qualify.

Surely somebody with experience of the system can't be telling us something that contradicts what the national press publish as fact ?

Dont believe the hype. ( Or the Hypo ). As for staffing levels, one local authority up here is reducing by approx 300 jobs each year - this is the 3rd financial year of this and will at least follow into the next. How many of those do you think were / are 'fat cats' ? ( And remembr, this year I'm one of those 300, so I'm don't appreciate some of the b0ll0x that gets propagated ).

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/19/councils-risk-financial-failure-auditors "As the government pushes ahead with funding cuts of more than a third in local government, the National Audit Office said many single-tier and county councils feared for core services including education and social care."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30524122

Ask the Tories on here.

Such is the Game of Thrones.

Completely missing the point, as usual. Mind you, why didn't the changes take place before this election ? Because a majority of MPs voted against - does that fit your image of democracy in action ?

But if they wouldn't have actually got any more votes it merely reinforces the faults that are apparent in FPTP, as they would have required even less votes to gain each seat.

But not necessarily more votes, so the PR argument is reinforced.

Proper PR, but neither the Cons nor Lab want it.