"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 23:11:41 -0000, "IMM" wrote:


"Owain" wrote in message
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"Andy Hall" wrote
| Just wait. He'll be telling us that people in the north east
| want a regional assembly. Nanny knows best.

£100 tax to Westminster. £100 total tax take.
£55 to Westminster and £55 to Local Gov. £110 total tax take.
£45 to Westminster, £45 to Region, £45 to Local Gov. £135 total tax
take.

Besides, the chancellor wants to lose x thousand civil servants. Some
more
regional assemblies would be an excellent place to lose them in without
having to pay out redundancy and up the unemployment figures.

The idea is to give the regions control over their affairs, instead of a
bunch of public school, predominantly southern, mandarin snots in
Whitehall
telling them what to do.

Sounds good to me. Put the civil servants where do most good, which is
not
in London.



Mmmm. Clearly it did to J+=2 and his sidekick. Unfortunately for
them, the electorate doesn't agree.

I suppose that they will now spin the idea and present it differently
until they do get a mandate, or more likely just go ahead and do it
anyway.


_They_ (UKGovernment) have to do it anyway ...!
It is a _requirement_ of the European Commissioners as
agreed by the Council of Ministers that Europe is to
be composed of Regions and not Countries. We are in
an interim arrangement when the transition is to take
place. Two-Jags is the guy (either a zealot or a mug) that's
tasked with implementing the European decision.
[In 1997 he had the title SoS Department of Transport,
Environment and the Regions -DTER- that's been chipped
away to 'the Regions'] He's already achieved 'success in
Scotland and Wales -which map onto EU Regions- now
he's attempting to implement the requirement in England-
which Brussels stipulate must be several units.
To get it back on track to D-I-Y; all Eight-by-Fours must be
sold as 2240x1220; red/black becomes brown/blue
and you will only be able to purchase it using Euro-money.

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Brian


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