Oddbean new post about login | logout New by me on the Birmingham city council insolvency, at Prospect Whatever happened to ‘the best-governed city in the world’? https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/62949/birmingham-council-local-authority-insolvency https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/111/029/958/753/582/689/original/8e5312a29313ced5.png
@731c2efc bravo. I think you're spot on here: "Local elections are largely treated as national opinion polls. Councils are expected to do a great deal, but with fewer resources and almost no real autonomy. This is a problem wider than Birmingham, even if the city provides a good illustration of it." Denmark is not perfect in this regard but I was astonished to see the 65 to 80% turn out in local elections here. Because local politics matters!
