Harriet Harman, the Minister for Communities and Local Government, has hinted at forcing city regions to hold referenda on having a directly elected city regional mayor.
This is nothing more than a sticking plaster designed to deflect attention from the fact that city regions are wasteful, undemocratic quangos that the electorate simply does not want. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Telford Council have announced that they are to join the City Region limited company.
Aside from all the concerns this brings around payment of wages, share holdings, pension payments, opt out fees and the like, the major question on most peoples’ lips is “why?”
The leader of the council, Councillor Andrew Eade, says it is necessary for […]
