We thought that the Prescott nightmare was over (although we saw that wasteful and largely impotent regional assemblies continue).
What we have now is creeping regionalism, with the worse feature that power is being exercised without accountability.
We know that the ambulance service has been fighting a rear-guard action, and lost? Their colleagues in the police will surely follow. Two emergency services will be based on remote Birmingham, 40 miles away.
The City Region, a product of the same nightmare, is still possible, and would be just as remote.
The Business Link, set up to provide business advice and other services is being reorganised to fit in with regional development agencies.
Most of all is the dominance assumed by Advantage West Midlands, controlling £400 million of taxpayers' money, this is the RDA which like others will be granted the regional housing and planning powers from the still-born regional assemblies.
Our lives will be very much under the power of these unelected mini-governments. We got out of the regional assembly frying pan (at least elected) into "quangoland". When things like this happen, is anyone surprised that the turn-out at elections, especially local ones, is so low?
People clearly feel that there is little point in voting.
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Are you saying that Brown's lot are doing all this, or are you saying that it's all happening by accident?
I'm not saying either - I just don't know. But since Brown is a centraliser, I suspect that none of this is happening by chance.
In any case more unelected and unaccountable Government proxies, often very remote, are taking decisions which affect our lives.
Is John Prescott still pulling strings from behind the scenes?
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