The press have spent the last couple of days carrying stories about the trans-national regions again, horrified that Federal Europe has lumped London and the South East in with France.
This story seems to make it into the news roughly every 6 months with the same newspapers expressing the same horrified surprise at the same story [...]
Our friends at West Midlands Taxpayers Alliance have a piece on the Supplementary Business Rates proposed by the New Labour think-tank, IPPR.
The IPPR’s Centre for Cities thinks that it’s a good idea if local authorities or Local Strategic Partnerships are given the ability to impose an additional 2p to 4p tax on businesses.
The intention has [...]
Advantage West Midlands (AWM), the unelected Regional Development Agency for the West Midlands euroregion, has signed a £100,000 sponsorship deal with Worcestershire County Cricket Club using taxpayers money.
Their reason for spending taxpayers money intended for regeneration and attracting investment into the West Midlands on sponsoring a cricket club is that it will promote Worcestershire and [...]
The Shropshire Star had another story the other day (not available online) highlighting the disastrous regionalisation of the Ambulance Service control rooms in the West Midlands euroregion.
West Midlands NO! predicted at the time that closing control rooms in the name of regionalisation would cost lives and that prediction is coming true.
I have had personal experience [...]
Our friends at West Midlands Taxpayers Alliance have spotted a welcome step in the right direction with regard to the unelected regional development agency, Advantage West Midlands (AWM).
According to the Birmingham Post, AWM is to have its budget overseen by elected local authorities instead of by the equally unelected and unaccountable West Midlands Regional Assembly [...]
