Well, you get the councillors you deserve, don't you.
And most people deserve nothing at all, as they can be ****** neither to vote in local elections nor (if they don't like any of the candidates) to stand for election themselves.
At the risk of wandering off topic, this isn't quite true. Since central government controls so much of what local government does, there is little incentive for anyone with serious capability to take part. The average committee meeting makes you weep with frustration at the trivial nature of both the agenda and the debate.
Local councils no longer control their affairs to any significant degree and that's been true since the disastrous Redcliffe Maud recommendations implemented in 1974 and made progressively worse since
