ABSTRACT
The County Councils Association has shared the complacency of the Association of Municipal Corporations in regard to the conurbations. Any form of regionalism has always been anathema to the County Councils Association. The most they would concede has been the formation of joint authorities. One of the few occasions for opposing the single-tier system was when the Association criticized the idea of handing over Greater London to a group of county boroughs. The Association calls for a revision of the Local Government Act, 1958. The most adverse feature of British local government is not the dual system of one- and two-tier areas but the fact that the county councils and the borough councils were allowed to set up separate associations. These organizations have been solely concerned to defend the interests of their members without regard to the well-being of local government as a whole.
