According to the Times, Gordon Brown is planning to create a network of London-type mayors in the “English regions” to combat Englishness and promote the Britishness agenda he has become obsessed since being parachuted into the post of Prime Minister without a mandate.
England has always been considered expendable by the Labour Party, hence their willingness to embrace […]
Via: Campaign for an English Parliament
No Mandate Brown is appealing to “middle England” to support more devolution for Scotland and support the union.
No Mandate Brown says that the UK is “the world’s most successful multi-national state” but that the union isn’t “a contract of convenience that can be renegotiated”. Multi-national or multi-regional? Remember, as far […]
As predicted by West Midlands NO!, Shropshire Ambulance Service and anyone else with an ounce of common sense, the regionalisation of the Ambulance Service in the West Midlands has proved disasterous with only 65% of emergency 999 calls in Shropshire being responded to within 8 minutes.
The British government’s minimum target is 75%.
I have first hand […]
The following was in tonight’s Shropshire Star:
Claims City Region costs won’t be fair
People in Telford will be paying on average substantially more towards the controversial West Midlands City Region than their counterparts in Birmingham, campaigners claimed today.
The operating cots of the city region will be divided into 10 equal shares - meaning the one million […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEInformation provided to the West Midlands NO! Campaign following a Freedom of Information Request has raised some serious questions about the City Region.
The City Region will not be funded on a pro-rata basis as previously thought, but by simply dividing the costs into 10 equal shares. This means, for example, Birmingham’s 1m […]
Advantage West Midlands, the unelected Regional Development Agency, has launched an appeal against the registration of former railway land in Oswestry as a village green.
An inquiry held in October 2005 found that the land had been used for leisure purposes as of right for over 20 years so local residents registered it as a village […]
Barrie Williams, Chairman of the West Midlands Business Council, has called on public agencies to follow Advantage West Midlands’ example and work together to help people into jobs.
PUBLIC agencies need to work more closely together to create new jobs, according to the West Midlands Business Council.
Chairman Barrie Williams said: “Advantage West Midlands has worked well […]
Advantage West Midlands (AWM) is advertising another non-job, paid for by the taxpayer as usual.
West Midlands Regional Observatory
Knowledge is power so empower the West Midlands region
Powering the transformation of the West Midlands, the Regional Observatory gives policy makers the data and intelligence they need to drive far-reaching change. Backed by Advantage West Midlands, this organisation […]
Begbies Traynor, a corporate rescue company, is planning an £8m fund for companies experiencing severe financial difficulties in conjunction with the unelected regional development agency, Advantage West Midlands (AWM). The loans will be given to companies facing CCJ’s and winding-up orders who need more than £5,000.
According to Begbies, the number of “red flag alerts” against […]
