You have not seen anything yet.
When Blair becomes all powerful President of Europe, Cameron, Brown or Clegg will be in the same position as the Albrighton joint committee.
Our general elections as we know them now will become meaningless.
Unfortunately it will still mean just as many MP’s all being paid for what?

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I hope I get invited to the letter writer’s Christmas party. Charades has nothing on the entertainment in store!

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I agree to some extent with the writer. Local democracy is important but the level must be right. Parish level is too small. Parish councillors too parochial. We need a wholescale reform of local government in England. Local authority areas should be functional for example, why lump Shifnal, Much Wenlock and Broseley in with the remote Shropshire Council. Surely the issues that they face are more in common with those of Telford? Those towns function as satellites and should be administrated as a functioanl area. I don’t think County level is important. They are not big enough to deal with significant problems such as transport links and I would suggest elected regional governance is the best way. That way there would be critical mass and enough budget to achieve benefits but would be far more democratic locally than a parliament just for the whole of England for example where the South East bias would just be perpetuated.

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