Barnet is a place in Hertfordshire totally different from and irrelevant to inner North London. It is ridiculous that the two try and to co-exist in a single borough. They don't and that goes to the heart of why Barnet has been failing it's citizens for almost half a century. Barnet has indefensible outer boundary, gerrymandered wards created for the convenience of politicians not communities and most of all an overblown self perpetuating bureaucracy that will cost taxpayers more than £1 billion before the next council election. Any new leader should on appointment call in the Boundary Committee for England to review both the ward and borough boundaries and also launch a consultation on abolishing Barnet altogether. It's time to scrap Barnet and save a £1 billion.

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