Now local people have seen off New Labour's latest fad, maybe the new, inclusive committee system can get on with what matters in local government - delivering decent services (which many of those pro-mayor politicians have not been doing for some time) and winning some genuine freedom for local councils from the yoke of central government control.
-Andy Richards, Hove
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