I’d very much like to find someone who’ll write a guest post here defending the Conservative proposals for local government – particularly the large-scale reliance upon referendums.
Here’s Labour local government big-beast Sir Jeremy Beecham on the proposals. Warning: It’s not kind.
Posts on ‘February 20th, 2009’
Beecham on the Conservative local government proposals
The commentariat and their version of democracy
I’d like to start a national campaign – if you’ll join me in it – in which the columnists who denounce the actions of elected politicians are obliged to step forward, say what they are in favour of themselves, and defend it.
If this were to happen, I’d ask for The Times / Guardian columnist Simon [...]
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