Local elections do not matter, and whoever you elect will act in the same sad way as their predecessors, under the same constraints that make local government an impotent arm of the centralised Britis
At the entrance to Clacton Pier, beneath the slowly spinning big wheel, is the Tubby Isaacs seafood stand. Beneath its scarlet awning lie cockles, whelks and jellied eels: a portal to an old East End