Who Could Possibly Have Foreseen It?

There is no pleasing some people, and various local authority malcontents who squealed with indignation at Team Starmer's proposed postponement of council elections are now squealing with indignation at the cancellation of the said postponement. The chair of the District Councils' Network even implied that a government which unilaterally endowed the Righteous State with the legal right to inflict collective punishment on civilians might have a less than altogether secure grasp on issues of law. Although several council leaders did shrug the matter off as a more or less routine fiasco, others are waxing indignant, having somehow failed to plan for the possibility that Team Starmer, of all the empty middle-management suits in the world, might proclaim a decision and then, in short order, be induced to decide otherwise.