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 […]
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 […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEInformation provided to the West Midlands NO! Campaign following a Freedom of Information Request has raised some serious questions about the City Region.
The City Region will not be funded on a pro-rata basis as previously thought, but by simply dividing the costs into 10 equal shares. This means, for example, Birmingham’s 1m […]
