David Evans: Labour's attack on local democracy

David Evans: Labour's attack on local democracy

Cllr David Evans is councillor on East Hampshire District Council. Labour is waging a multi-fronted war on local democracy (and free speech, the rule of law, and so on – but that’s another story). They seem to want to punish councils and emasculate local government. The sector is experiencing a tsunami of massively disruptive and barely thought-through change. One has to work hard to decode what their statements say in order to find out where th…