Radical Wales: Abolish Local Government
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Local Government IX: Local Democracy & Civic Pride
The penultimate part of this series on local government and independence looks at how local democracy and community spirit could ...
Local Government VIII: The Process of Reform
In case it wasn't obvious, the chances of any significant local government reform – considering the current and expected state ...
Local Government VII: Financing Local Government & Independence
The final four posts on local government and independence start with a look at money. Firstly, a word of warning. ...
Local Government VI – Counties & Regions
In the previous piece, I looked at governance at the community level. Today, it goes up a level to counties ...
Local Government III – The Case for Reform (and why it hasn’t happened)
Reforming local government has been a rather fruitless endeavour since devolution - to the extent that a few years ago ...
Local Government II – How Local Government Works
Having looked at how local government in Wales has got to where it is, next it's worth examining how local ...
Local Government I – The Story of Local Government in Wales
Over the rest of summer and the autumn, I'll be doing a series on local government (a revisit to a ...
Dusty Shelves: A Short History of Welsh Constitutional Commissions
As we all know by now, the solution to every problem in Wales is to form a committee. The more ...
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