Conservatives: Worried about the embarrasment of losing a metric shipload of councillors in local elections, due to public dissatisfaction with your being a bunch of amoral incompetent feckwits?
Why not breach long-established parliamentary convention, and invoke an old and obscure piece of legislation in order to simply ignore the results of the democratic process? It's worked well for you before.
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Fri 3 May 2013, 13:59, Reply)