Dear Editor, Your article on page 32 last week (Is it Bob to the rescue? Post, March 31), took a light touch regarding the possibility of Bob Warman becoming Birmingham’s first elected mayor, but sadly it failed to do the subject justice.
Those who study Britain’s new “zero democracy” governmental system are aware that the diktats of Brussels play an increasingly influential role in things of this sort and that “mayors” are part of the EU’s regionalisation programme for these islands.
Incidentally, this removes the name England from the EU’s cartographic vocabulary.
I don’t recall any attempt to educate the public on this point when London’s local government was rehashed, and the press concentrated on Mrs Thatcher’s attempts to keep Ken Livingstone from the post.
This Government’s newly introduced Localism Bill (which I have yet to read) is described as a Bill to re-empower local government, and the electorate at large, yet it contains 146 ways in which Westminster can overule county, district and borough councils.
I think our PM’s Big Society will come to be a millstone aound his neck.
Peter McHugh
Alvechurch
