The multi-billion dollar global warming fraud

[biffvernon]

Don't get disillusioned, get involved. These local councils are only as good as the people who make them up.

Do councils have the power to do anything except scribble at the borders of the BAU mandate though?

Only if the locals, pitchfork and flaming torch in hand, grab the council by the scruff of the neck and demand that central government diktats are ripped up and returned.

As yet, local councils have no balls, but I think that will change when TSHFT.

Ooo, it's not so simple. A lot of the best things local councils are doing is because of of central government diktats. The council officers are often ahead of the elected members and can interpret government policy in good ways. For example, in my area Ecotricity wanted to build a windfarm. The local nimbys didn't want it and the Tory council would have stopped it, but the officials were able to point to government policy and tell the council that if they rejected the application it would be appealed and the council would lose after spending a lot of money. The council were left with little choice but to grant planning permission and passed the blame on to the evil central government.