My last statement of course assumes that in town and parish councils there would be enough candidates standing to force an election.
If there are not enough candidates standing then all putting themselves up would get elected by default, which is candidate Matcham's strategy after using it successfully in the River by-election.
As someone who will probably have the option of voting for Mr Matcham my first preference is that he gets none of his seats, my second preference is that he gets all of them
