AWM boss to get CBE
John Edwards, the former unelected Chief Executive of the unelected Regional Development Agency, Advantage West Midlands, is being given a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the rural economy.
Edwards presided over Birmingham-centric AWM for many years and as anyone who lives outside of “Greater Birmingham” will know, AWM cares very little for rural areas because it is run by business for business and rural areas are too light on big business to be of any importance to them.
The “services to the rural economy” thing is a smokescreen anyway - Edwards is being rewarded for playing his part in the balkanisation of England and advancing the EU’s regionalisation agenda.
There are many, many people who have devoted their lives to caring for the sick and elderly or to charity who are far more deserving of an honour than a man who has devoted his working life to undermining democratic accountability in local government.
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Good to see the unelected queen and her unelected government along with unelected Eurofederalist google newsalerts are still working fine though….
June 14th, 2008 at 5:04 pmLet me know if you want to make a coherent comment, I’ll be sure to hang out some bunting.
June 14th, 2008 at 5:34 pmTo be fair the citation for Edwards’ gong is nothing to do with AWM. It is his work in his previous post as C/E of the (yes unelected quango!) Rural Development Commission that gained him tyhe honour.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:25 pmYes, you’re quite right. Robert Mugabe received a knighthood for the good work he used to do but it doesn’t mean that he deserves one now.
Be assured, I am not associated John Edwards with Robert Mugabe, just using him as a convenient example!
June 24th, 2008 at 9:49 pm