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Predictions about the end of local government are not new. In 1966 William Robson wrote Local Government in Crisis which pointed to the possible demise of elected local government- and this was an update of texts written in 1947 and 1926! Writing in 1985 in a similar vein George Jones and John Stewart observed
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