THERE'S that old saying which goes ‘How do you get to such and such?’, ‘Well, I wouldn’t start from here!’, and that’s how it is with the unitary council - we didn’t want one and the one we’ve got can’t fix the crisis we’re in, writes Bridgwater Town Council leader, Brian Smedley.

And it doesn’t help PM Sunak telling us to ‘just get on and do it!’

He needs to give us the tools! Finish that bowl of soup, come on, here's a fork. Shift that beached whale, come on, use this rubber chicken.

What do you mean you can't balance the £80m adult social care budget with the resources you've got, there's a copy of Donny Osmond’s 1972 hit single 'puppy love' in the rescue package I sent you. Just get on with it!

Or failing that just marry someone rich, like we used to do in the olden days - if the country was struggling, you'd marry a queen from a richer country.

So come on Somerset, go marry Dorset or someone with a bit more disposable cash - someone whose actually managed their finances a bit better in previous years.

You don’t need me to tell you what to do, I've sent you down a medium sized bag of Lemon Sherbets, now come on balance that budget!

It’s as if they didn’t have a plan - well, they did actually - that was to reduce local government down to nothing, which is the abyss that the county council is looking into now.

As Wellington would have said ‘Give me nightfall or give me Blucher’ (that was the Prussian general coming to his rescue at Waterloo).

And there he is on the horizon! Sir Gerhardt Von Keir Blucher…if he can find the right battlefield……