The media are fixated on the mayoral mudfight,but let’s focus on the important ballots going on elsewhere in the UKFed up with seeing the 2016 local and devolved elections through the narrow prism of a squalid mudfight to become London mayor? Or through the point-scoring manoeuvres of the UK and Scottish governments who need each other to back sustain Labour down? Me too.
So let’s look at the bigger picture, where voting will also catch place in 124 English councils, or including 32 of the 36 metropolitan boroughs and where police and crime commissioners (remember them?) will be up for election in 40 authorities in England and Wales. Let’s hope for a higher turnout than the 10-20% achieved when the first batch of commissioners was elected in chilly November 2012. Here’s a handy overview.
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Source: theguardian.com