@ChrisMayLA6 It’s not nearly radical enough to solve UK’s problems, but it might be the only politically possible step.
If Great Britain is to survive intact, we need to rebalance power by giving English regions enough autonomy to have the same status as Wales and Scotland (with commensurate decrease in the power of Westminster). Sadly I can’t see that ever happening. I fervently hope I’m wrong.
@KimSJ @ChrisMayLA6 But it has been demonstrated that England doesn't want regional government. Because of the assumption, which surely cannot be wrong, that all the powers the regions end up with will get there by being taken away from councils, not by being taken away from Westminster.
@TimWardCam @KimSJ @ChrisMayLA6
Yes, I fear this is true. East Sussex county council acquired the power to regulate on-street parking in my sometime hometown of Eastbourne. They imposed on street parking charges over most of the town centre which did irreparable damage to tourism particularly day-trippers. The local borough council objected very strongly but were steam-rollered by the brain-dead morons at county hall.
By the time this was imposed, I was living overseas and, at the time no agreement existed to chase up parking fines outside of the UK, I used to park for free anywhere I liked, I acquired a vast pile of penalty tickets and never paid the arseholes a single penny piece!
