It's not just Labour who spend their time squabbling on local councils Jalima. We have a Conservative majority, a handful of LDs, one genuine Independent and a quite large NIMBY (aka Independent) contingent. They've spent millions on various aborted plans and legal advice to try and stop new housing being built in their back yards. Meanwhile, we have a desperate shortage of housing and have been ordered by government to build 10,000 new houses. They seem to spend so much time arguing that they don't have time for anything else. They've been so desperate to keep council tax down that we hardly have any services left. It's plummeted from being in the top ten places in the country to live (according to some list or other - Telegraph?) to number 35.