Well, you could look at the other way, it’s much better continuity for those still on the council - could be chaos with 100% new councillors with free range to impose what might have been based on a form of tactical voting - like Brexit - “I see some good to what the EU is doing, but I want to register my displeasure…”
If the overall performance of the council doesn’t satisfy the electorate next time (& / or the national flavour moves in whatever direction), then another third will get kicked out.
Agreed it’s the best case scenario for the specific area; the council will be abolished in 2 years and amalgamated with others in the area or converted to a Unitary Authority.
A completely new council, made up of newly elected councillors, wouldn’t have the depth of knowledge of ongoing matters to make the best informed decisions in this area - something that would affect the area for decades if they got it wrong.
With new authorities, they tend to keep the existing councillors from the former councils on (even if this leads to there being many more councillors than is planned for the new authority) until the normal election date.
So, if there was a full council election today and the merger is in two years: they’d have about two more years to bed in before the new authority’s first elections.
Plaid Reaching Out to Greens, Lib Dems and either Labour of Individuals within Labour trying to form Government in Wales,
Still waiting for Uddingston, Inverness and Skye, Lochaber, and badenoch to be announced before Regional seats are allocated in Scotland looking like The SNP Will form Government, possibly with the Greens
If The SNP and PC both form Governments, that means that all 3 devolved nations will be Led by Nationalist parties looking to seperate from the union eventually. I wonder if England had a devolved Gov, would there be a sizable anti union faction?
Edit: within a minute of posting the comment Lib Dems won Caithness, Sutherland, and Ross
Labour down from 44 seats to 9, in a country that traditionally strongly votes Labour. They will now have a Plaid Cymru (pro-independence, albeit softer than Scotland) administration.
It means the administrations in all 3 Celtic nations will be led by anti-Union parties for the first time.
PC have very much taken a softer stance on Independance this time round, which i think did them favours. I imagine in their first 5 years they’ll be focussing on trying to get all the same devolved powers as Scotland
I can’t imagine the SNP are going to get many seats from the Regional Lists, so it’s possible the Scottish Greens and Reform are going to start slithering up…
It appears the SNP, who’ve been in government in Scotland forever, and Labour, who are doing such a good job in the UK, haven’t been punished by the Scottish electorate.
People are (for the most part) happy with the SNP performance since Swinney came in and want to see it continue. Although SNP vote share did go down and they’ve lost 5 Contituency seats (7 really but they stole one off Lib Dem and 1 off Con)
The real representation comes in with the Regional lists , I imagine Lab will leave with fewer seats than current (even though they got one more contituency than last time)
People definately have their issues with the SNP, I should have said those who voted SNP last time are mostly happy
But many have jumped ship. Especially younger voters are tending to the Greens, with even a handful of English Students I know voting for the Pro Indy greens.
Assuming Labour is having their vote split by reform is a bit ludicrous.
We know they’re just tories, and Tories Never win In Scotland (i mean overall), regardless of what shade of blue they are.
Labours biggest challenge was The SNP, Greens, And surprisingly the Lib Dems.
