The idea had to come from somewhere

Given that Labour isn’t the party of original ideas, where did the current plan to divide the country into administrative areas, which have nothing to do with current divisions, come from?
    One possible source is the Nazi system of dividing the country into regional areas, each with a centrally appointed Gauleiter in charge.
    After the Labour ‘reorganization’, each district leader would be an all-powerful government stooge and party politics at local level would become extinct. Councils would exist only to carry out government orders and dissent would be non-existent.