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    I piani laburisti di ritardare le elezioni locali sono illegittimi, afferma la Commissione elettorale

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    1. Less-Guest6036 on

      Of course Farage is unhappy about it. He knows that the longer Reform are running councils the less chance they’ll get elected to council seats.

      Especially once the budget screw ups start dropping, and we’ve already see signs of that with Kent County Council.

      Now to me both sides in this have a point:
      On the face of it delaying elections is bad but electing officials for a year and then new elections seems wasteful, a bit like having councillors that resign after a few days because they discover there’s work involved.

      If the timing wasn’t so close to the next round of elections I’d wonder if something like recall petitions would be a good idea. By default delay elections unless 10% of the electorate sign the petition. But that would cut the time before known elections even further then the current jan 15th deadline.

      And a shorter timeframe would harm parties in their campaigning, development of local plans etc. Well except Reform, they just say whatever and people happily believe them.

    2. marmitetoes on

      I get that it’s a bit wasteful to have people elected for a year, but it doesn’t look good, especially when they parties in power are expected to make heavy loses.

      Maybe holding them and giving Farage a year in power to show how much of a shitshow they can cause, but without causing too much lasting damage is a good idea.

    3. Sweaty-Bodybuilder29 on

      If the tories did this kier would cry for the pm to resigns

      The double standards of this government is unreal

      He is a human rights lawyer who picks what he wants to obaide to

    4. snot_in_a_jar on

      Putting how utterly undemocratic this is aside, It seems a bit of an own goal by the Government. Yes they’ll lose a lot of the councils (as will the Tories) to Reform, but that will make a lot of people up and down the country aware of how absolutely inept they are at a local level, never mind at a national level.

      Allow the elections -> Reform dominate -> Reform fail miserably up and down the country -> your average person gets to see first hand hand Reform in action

    5. Lynch888 on

      It doesn’t necessarily follow that councillors cannot change mid restructure. I can assure everyone existing councillors have no idea what is going on and all reorganisation is really done by national government.

    6. Butthurt_toast on

      We had EU elections less than a year before we left. Delaying elections because of reorganization is completly unjustifiable. If any other party tried to do this, Labour would rightfully be up in arms. Bloody disgraceful.

    7. SojournerInThisVale on

      Cue all the people on here who were defending this move when it was only politicians complaining about it…

    8. Money_Regular_6948 on

      ‘Proposed to delay’ it has not been actioned so stop you BS and be factual. Bad Telegraph, naught newspaper.

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