Friday 17 December 2010

Mr Bumble in a pickle



A key aspect of the Government’s new Localism Bill is to transfer power from the centre back to the people. In theory, a welcome and long overdue proposal. In reality, all that will happen is that power is devolved from Westminster bureaucrats to Town Hall bureaucrats. We, the people, won’t get a look in. As Mr Reasonable points out today, Barnet Council will try every trick in the book to avoid any democratic scrutiny by the electorate.

The Localism Bill is being promoted by Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Local Government. For him to allow inept local authorities to have even greater powers without making them more accountable to the people they are supposed to serve, proves that politicians care more about platitudes and sound bites than real genuine democracy.

1 comment:

Moaneybat said...

DCMD,

This has been in the making for a few years now, whispered not shouted, The idea that grew out of quangos and ALMOs NDPBs and NGOs, "Don't blame us, blame them." Every mother local council will be rubbing their hands with glee.

When the majority of the nation don't know how it's constitution operates nor which 'X' to put in which box, when both are held on the same day, then we deserve what we get.