(Yesterday, 4:28 pm)BusLoverMum wrote With Sunderland and, any moment now, Gateshead gone turquoise (Gannon is gone) this could get interesting. I can't see the new guard having much time for bringing services back into public management.

Just thinking that myself .  As someone who lived in Newcastle but now resides in Gateshead I thought labour had been in too long, but to give reform so many votes... wow.  I do wonder if people read the small printer or look at how other councils under reform have gone before putting the x in the box