The Government wants Portsmouth to merge into a larger authority which will include other areas. Those areas have different needs, they are not Portsmouth and they may come with lots of Hampshire's debt which Portsmouth did not incur. Portsmouth should remain its own city and not be forced to merge and lose its identity.
Portsmouth City Council has launched a survey to find out your views on the council's response to Local Government Reorganisation.
Local journalists have unveiled bombshell plan by Hampshire County Council to push government to merge Portsmouth and Southampton.
Cllr Steve Pitt, Leader of Portsmouth Council, has written to Jim McMahon MP, Labour's Reorganisation Chief, to say Hands Off Portsmouth!
