"Adrian Bailey" <dadge@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Greg Stone" <cllrgregstone@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > I can't say I'm particularly enamoured by this. I'm used to election
> > by thirds  and I think that to go to all-up four yearly elections
> > would be an erosion of local democracy. I accept the point that the
> > public are often confused, but don't accept that this is the solution.
> > I am also unhappy at the lack of consultation over this.
>
> It's nonsense, isn't it. I don't even agree that the public is confused.
The
> public knows that it has a local council and knows that it has to elect
some
> councillors to it some years. The notion that the public has to know, or
> cares to know, the mechanics of the electoral process, is just spin.

Very good point. I'm sure the public *is* confused, but I doubt it matters.
They are confused about how many councillors they have too, and about what
the various tiers of local government do, but they cope with that.