Member

When all is said and done, we have ended up in a situation where the Secretary of State has picked and chosen the elections she would like to avoid, and then only in those areas where, to party advantage, it has been expedient for Labour. For there is to be no reorganisation in London, or in the failed Birmingham authority where the rubbish is piling up in the streets, or in Manchester. There are more councillors within the M25 than in all the county councils of England, and Labour is using all this to create a permanent, structural metropolitan bias in the way our country is governed, extending its war on the countryside to the fabric of our constitution.