Date: November 8th, 2006 10:46 am (UTC)From:white_hart
I think a coalition might be a good thing next time round, as I don't think New Labour can be turned round as long as it stays in power and no matter what Cameron says I could never welcome a Tory government. I wouldn't want it to last more than one Parliament, though. The problem with coalitions is that they have to tread such a fine line of compromises that very little actually gets done. It was quite astonishing when Oxfordshire went Conservative after 20 years of coalitions how much happened, and how quickly. And there's a lot of stuff (the environment, mostly) that needs action.
I think a lot of the trouble with local issues is that the current government is very much into centralisation of power. Too many decisions on local issues are being handed down from Whitehall and councils can't do anything about them, so you don't get that dialogue between people and politicians at a level that would actually be meaningful.
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Date: November 8th, 2006 10:46 am (UTC)From:I think a lot of the trouble with local issues is that the current government is very much into centralisation of power. Too many decisions on local issues are being handed down from Whitehall and councils can't do anything about them, so you don't get that dialogue between people and politicians at a level that would actually be meaningful.