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The best of the worst of 2011’s local elections
Yesterday Ed Miliband fired the starter’s pistol on this year’s local election season. On May 3rd we’ll see the results.The sad thing is we already know what we can expect. It happens every year -...
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38,000 denied a vote
Tens of thousands of people across England are being denied a vote in next week's local elections, owing to the undemocratic phenomenon of uncontested seats. In this year’s elections there are seven...
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The new rotten boroughs?
How would you like to live in a one party state? You may wonder why anyone would ask given that this is the UK, not North Korea. After all, we can all vote tomorrow if we choose to (or nearly all, at...
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Election Cancelled
There has been a shocking increase in the number of uncontested seats in some English councils up for election this May. The Eden District Council in Cumbria has already declared 21 of its 38 available...
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