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T_i_B

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6. When at local gala's last year

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2026, 03:10 PM

Wednesday

I did notice that whenever Reform folk came to the Parish Council stall their first question was always "Ere, what do you lot do anyway?"

Which begs the question, why on earth do they want to run local councils when they don't understand what local council's actually do?

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