They Are Planning For A Coup

Already, thanks to Brown and cheered on by Cameron, the electorate, as such, actually cannot even care about interest rates, even though the public certainly does. Brown and Cameron both seem determined to do the same thing to health policy, once again reversing one of Labour greatest democratising achievements. And now there is a proposal to do the same to large-scale planning applications, such as those for airports or power stations.

With no say over, monetary policy, health policy or enormous developments, what will politicians be for? There will still be education, and transport, and policing, and social security, and foreign policy, and defence, and a host of other matters. But for how much longer? The precedent will be well and truly set. Parliament will go the way of local councils, except voluntarily.

Instead, we must demand the restoration and extension of the powers both of Parliament and of local government.