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Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill

I understand that very well, but it does not seem very sensible. Single-member wards might end up not having a councillor for the rest of the four years, which would not seem sensible at all. I will just ask about this business of slates of different sizes. A slate of four people might say, ““Just four of us—we can galvanise, we can get together””. Eight people would say, ““No, we represent more of the district or county, so we are a better slate””. Should local elections be about that kind of organisational structure—about which structure of an executive is the best way to run a particular county, borough, district or whatever? Should elections not be about the services that are going to be produced and about differences between the slates or candidates on projects in the area—what people will provide—rather than this rather arid structural thing? We are not going to get people to vote on that, are we?