Local Governance Gifts

'Excellent! So that's all agreed, then! All we need do now is draft the consultation document.'

'So I've put out the bin ten minutes early, it's not as if the council will find out.'

Closing the Gap

Parking Placards

Water War

Get Off My Sidewalk

Suspension isn't Punishment

Slap on the Wrist

Poll-dancing booth.

'The anger management class ruined our budget when they ordered love seats.'

'What a rubbish story!'

Jackie Weaver

"Good boy."

"Who's got the hammer?"

'His best qualities are circumventing questions and evading answers.'

"I'm voting for Stephen because I cannot stand Katie's mother, she is so catty! Anyway-- how're your parents doing with the divorce?"

"This is a neighbourhood vigilante area."

'I'm afraid the cuts are beginning to bite!'

"A Bill of Rights? - Don't you TRUST me?"

'Your 'marriage' invention sounds good, but what if it leads to a concentration of power for the central government?'

"Of course, when I say we the people I mean I the people."

Sign Reform

With no clear winner, the debate ended in a tie breaker.

'Don't worry boss, it's probably archaic!'

'Every year local authorities whinge on about needing more money to maintain services.'

Comments. Complaints. Constitutional Amendments.

"With great power comes great reward."

"It's either this or a country run by lawyers."

'I know we can't repeal the laws of nature, but I don't see why we can't amend them a little.'

"Ah, you'll be wanting our red tape department, third door on the left!"

"What good is power if you don't use it?"

"We've been campaigning for years to encourage central government to delegate more powers to local authorities..."

Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel.

'I've thought up a great amendment to campaign finance reform -- special Medicare benefits for sore losers!'

What comes after a trillion