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Every few years the council chamber changes hands, and every few years community groups get quietly sorted into friends and enemies by people who've never read their asks. Here's an opinionated survival guide to surviving a change of political control without losing your residents.
Every campaign recruits the same handful of jobs and then wonders why it stalls six months in. Here are the five roles that actually decide whether a local coalition lasts — and how to spot the people already doing them unpaid.
A WhatsApp group with 400 members and nobody chairing it. A petition with thousands of signatures and no one to hand it to. Every few months a UK neighbourhood generates enormous online energy and then loses it — here's how groups are converting that spark into something that lasts.
Most coalitions don't collapse because the opposition wins. They collapse because the person who booked the room, took the minutes and chased the follow-up calls quietly ran out of steam. It's time to treat the boring tasks as the radical ones.
A council vote, a funding promise or a planning concession is not the end of a campaign — it is the moment when power either gets built or gets lost. Here is the case for a 'second win' strategy, and a simple framework for planning it.