The Oldie

My vote? None of the above

I thought about voting in the local elections, but in the end I decided against it.

I belonged to that very large number of people – millions – who never wanted the embarrassment and expense of a London mayor in the first place.

We are comparable to the millions and millions of Welsh who never wanted a national assembly – the majority of Welsh people. Millions of Scots – not a majority, but nonetheless a sizeable proportion of the population – did not want a Scottish parliament.

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