Welcome to the London Borough Politics Blog

The on-line, paper and broadcast media talk a lot about London politics. But they think London is the Mayor, City Hall, and the Westminster village. Only when they want to moan about their parking tickets, do they look at the Boroughs.

The decisions that really matter for Londoners are made by their Boroughs .. and this means that Borough politics matter more in the real world than who Ken was rude to this week This blog will follow the politics of the London Boroughs - including by-elections and defections, who's up and who's down, scandal and gossip, some of their political history, and the prospects for the 2006 all-out Borough elections.

This blog was previously at http://londoners.typepad.com/london_borough_politics/.