The postponement of elections has always been an echo of contemporary catastrophe, as one the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rides roughshod over the land. War, Pestilence, these were the grim riders that justified such extraordinary measures, halting the democratic process only when the very survival of the nation hung in the balance. But now, in 2025, we witness the emergence of a fifth horseman, one more insidious and mundane: Tyranny, or perhaps better named, Bureaucracy. Cloaked in the guise of administrative reform and devolution, this ethereally dull and shadowy figure has been unleashed by the Labour government, in collusion with Conservative councils, to trample upon the democratic rights of millions.
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Just heard of the “devolution” scheme that will get rid of traditional government bodies and replace them with more distant government. Now it seems that they are delaying the elections for the new bodies for two years. I have not found anything to confirm or deny whether the old traditional bodies will be dismantled on schedule, or if they will stay until any putative new elections.
I am not a trusting sort, especially when dealing with politicians, but for some reason I am getting a hint of the early 1790’s in France and and government successions then and there. We shall see.
Subotai Bahadur
If an elected official reaches the end of their proper term and then won’t leave, they must be made to leave.
Otherwise, you are slaves.