Yes, we’ve heard similar pledges before from the Tories but this one is quite unequivical - the Tory Shadow Cabinet member for Communities and Local Government has pledged that all regional quangos will be abolished should they win the next election.
On his blog, John Redwood says that Spelman has made the following pledges:
Unelected Regional assemblies [...]
The Birmingham Post is claiming that a Tory plan to strip Regional Development Agencies of some of their powers will damage the economy of the West Midlands and centralise decision making.
This is absolute nonsense. Removing the regional quangocracy will empower local communities, increase democratic accountability in the decision-making process and could provide a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
