Worcestershire News: We must keep on scrutinising quango

January 7, 2007 Letters No comments
! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.

We must keep on scrutinising quango

SIR — I read, with interest, the debate about the proposed Worcestershire unitary authority.

There are, to my knowledge, two county councils in the West Midlands proposing a unitary authority – Worcestershire and Shropshire.

In Shropshire, the proposal is being supported by councillors Pate and Mosley — both are members of the unelected West Midlands Regional Assembly.

In Worcestershire, the proposal is being supported by councillors Lord and Buckley – both are also members of the regional assembly. Co incidence?

Replacing district councils with unitary authorities is perfect for unelected taxpayer-funded regional quangos. It means there are fewer people scrutinising what they do, fewer people to lean on when something needs doing and less money being spent on local government, which partly negates the argument that we don’t need another tier of draining our taxes.

STUART PARR,
West Midlands No!,
Telford.

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