Well at least there are still some useful things that it does. My county council is Somerset County Council and I have to say Newport is not quite to the point they have reached. Somerset CC has become nothing more than the representatives of this invisible hand of the Communists and they even have their own Pravda sent out each month.
Somerset County Council
"Somerset Making WAVEs With Euro Cash Boost"
"Heroes Welcome At CO2mmunity Carbon Conference"
"Boost for Recycling in Sedgemoor"
" New start time for recycling and refuse collections in West Somerset "
"18 March 2008 Mendip Pupils Set For Healthy Debate At Children's Parliament "
And on and on and on. If you want to find out what the Red's latest agenda items are then they have the lot. Indeed the leader, who is much like your Julia Middleton kind of character, wanted to merge all five district councils into one EU regional council and refused a referendum on it. Where have we seen this kind of thing before?