Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Friday 27 February 2009
Time To Fire The Mayor
Directly elected executive Mayors are a concept wholly alien to this country on every conceivable level. That Labour is apparently planning to put up Sir Alan Sugar demonstrates, even more clearly than the current spectacle of Boris Johnson, that the whole thing should be done away with.
I quite agree. Why the need for so many layers of governance?
ReplyDeleteHere in London I am supposedly represented by three local Borough Councillors, a member of the GLA, the Mayor himself, a MEP and a MP!