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 [...]
During the Tory Party conference in Birmingham the other weekend, David Cameron said that he would abolish Regional Devlopment Agencies if they win the next election.
The Tories see great savings in getting rid of these unelected quangos, something we understandably agree with. There isn’t much meat on the bones of the Tories’ plan to get [...]
Dermot Finch, the Director of the Centre for Cities, has issued a warning to the quangocrats in Birmingham that they are at risk of not being able to grab more powers if the Tories win the next election.
The Tories pledged to remove the unelected, unaccountable Regional Assemblies if they won the next election and Labour [...]
In the months following West Midlands NO! registering the company Birmingham, Coventry & Black Country City Region, the architects of the city region quango that wanted to use the same name continued to promote themselves under the title Birmingham, Coventry & Black Country City Region.
We wrote to Dr Simon Murphy, the director of the city [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The petition calling on the British government to abolish the unelected regional quangos has had a disappointing response from one of the Prime Ministers’ PR guru’s.
The Government believes there are issues which extend beyond the boundaries of even the largest local authority, and that a regional approach is necessary to analyse and address the causes [...]
