Press Release: City Region tax-raising powers

November 7, 2007 Regions 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.

Press Release
For Immediate Release

The West Midlands NO! Campaign warned, as far back as December 2006 [1], that the City Region had ambitions for tax raising powers.

Many “business community” leaders in the West Midlands have backed the City Region in return for a promise that they will get more of a say in decisions affecting both business and residents.

The press is today reporting that ministers are set for a collision course with this same “business community” over the possibility of the City Region having tax-raising powers! [2]

Leader of the West Midlands NO! Campaign, Stuart Parr, said “I would love to gloat and say ‘I told you so’ but this is far too serious a matter for point-scoring.  The people involved with the City Region have no intention of consulting taxpayers and are relying on the business community for support.  Hopefully the City Region will be a tax too far for West Midlands businesses – they’re our best hope for halting the progress of this expensive, toothless talking shop”.

Stuart Parr
West Midlands NO! Campaign
07973296118
http://www.westmidlandsno.org.uk

References:
[1] http://www.westmidlandsno.org.uk/wordpress/?p=77
[2] http://www.shropshirestar.com/2007/11/threat-of-new-tax-for-firms/

The West Midlands NO! Campaign is a non-partisan campaign opposed to the imposition of unaccountable, unelected, undemocratic regional government in the West Midlands.
Regionalisation has been growing throughout England, particularly in the West Midlands culminating in the proposal of a West Midlands City Region centred around Birmingham and incorporating several satellite urban areas.  The City Region has been officially named as the Birmingham, Coventry and Black Country City Region.
There is little or no support for regional government in any part of England yet the UK government and local authorities continue to cede power to unelected regional quangos without the consent of the electorate.
We believe that the introduction, extension and strengthening of regional government and quangos without the consent of the people affected is wrong and demand a public referendum on its future.
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