<b><b>The Walrus goes to a Best Value discussion - and finds himself, surreally, in the midst of an unholy scramble for places in the council&amp;’s nuclear bunker</b></b><br><b>When Best Value was launched a few years ago, I thought it looked like a good idea. But I guess that I am not alone amongst regular service users who feels that it has not, in the end, really made much difference to anything. But from time to time I still get invited along to a Best Value panel at one of our nearby local authorities and, after missing a few, I took myself along recently to see what had changed.</b><br><b><b>four minute warning</b></b><br>The highlight of the debate was a round table discussion on the Borough Emergency Plan. <p></p><p> The plan works like this - in the event of the borough receiving a four minute warning of a nuclear strike, a number of senior council officers will revert immediately to a bolt-hole deep in the bowels of the Civic Centre. </p><p> Perhaps I should have sought clarification, but let us assume that, after Glasnost and the fall of The Berlin Wall, the most likely source of nuclear attack now would be a disaffected unitary authority …