True sadly, 1974 local government reorganisation set us on the route to ever more centralisation. That seems to have continued under every government since. Go

True sadly, 1974 local government reorganisation set us on the route to ever more centralisation. That seems to have continued under every government since. Go back earlier and local government actually had ability to achieve things. Things that suited the locality. Now everyone from county and town councils can vote against x (eg fracking) and Whitehall happily steamroller over it. The north shall have the ugly stuff, the south east the infrastructure and spending.