5th August
‘Fake devolution’ centralises power in Brussels
John Prescott’s (the EU-regime’s) programme of regionalisation is "fake devolution", because it abolishes local and national democracy and centralises power in Brussels.
Although beguilingly impotent and boring, this (very) new "regional" structure is already a means for EU decrees to coerce elected local councillors. Via the office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM – EU decree becomes a statuary instrument, which parliament never sees), the Regional Government Office (RGO statuary instrument becomes government instruction) and the Regional Assembly (RA-Government instruction becomes regional planning strategy) so that councillor Bloggs of your local planning committee (who has no power to change it) is the first elected representative ever to have the opportunity of considering it.
The appalling, soviet style "strategy", governing, for example, costly restrictions on traffic movement, the creation of divisive, litigious "equality –issues", the environmentally-nonsensical construction of wind farms and unworkable "doorstep-recycling", jamming "high-density, car-free, in-fill housing" into the open spaces of every town pouring out expensive propaganda to support these initiatives – without a mandate from any elected body, is just a taste of the dictatorship to come, if these "regional" structures are allowed the constitutional legitimacy they currently lack.
If the regional assembly were elected (were to acquire a fig-leaf of democracy) it would still be obliged to implement EU decrees, but would do so without the existing intermediate stages.
We must reject Prescott’s quasi-democratic, pseudo-devolutionary initiative, sternly, decisively and at once.
Steve Reed
UKIP Chairman
(Wells and Weston-Super-Mare)
Glastonbury
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