Elections are held for 16 Council seats each year on a rotational basis, with elections to Kent County Council taking place in the fourth year of the cycle.
He says he thinks the odds of the council taking strong action "are close to zero".
Legislative power lay with a "customs parliament" (Zollparlament) composed of deputies directly elected by popular vote, and, like the council, taking decisions by a majority vote.
Bennett said none of the protesters had a problem with the council taking action to deal with diseased or dangerous trees, but said independent experts had declared many of the felled trees to be healthy.
Martin, who works for Islington council taking disabled children to school, told me how he'd spent a month sleeping either in Hampstead Heath or by the canal near London Zoo.
Western diplomats have admitted privately however that there is no chance of the UN security council taking action against president Bashar al-Assad as long as he enjoys the support of Russia and China, which have used their vetoes to defend him against sanctions.
