Your council decides more about your actual week than Parliament does — the bins, the buses, whether the road gets fixed — and you probably can't name a single councillor.
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And the local paper that used to report it has gone, which is most of why nobody knows what their council is doing.
Bins, buses, roads, planning, libraries, social care. Nearly every complaint people make about the country is a council responsibility and turnout is thirty percent.
Bins, buses, planning, schools. Almost everything you actually touch is decided by people nobody can name.
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what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.