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Originally posted by timewarrior2001
If there is a NE assembly I have never heard of it, never seen it and dont know of anythign it does.
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What I think you'll have, which we have here, is a Regional Development Council (I think that's what they're called) which is unelected (a Quango) but has a large say in how money is invested in the region. I think that's what's meant by a NE assembly.
I tend to agree that a local, elected, assembly is just a way of shifting responsibility from central government. An elected assembly, however, may be better than an unelected one. The problem I have is the area they'll cover.
The proposed one for the NW will cover, as far as I know, an area that runs from the Scottish border all the way down to at least Manchester and possibly beyond. How's that local?
As for national government, can anyone tell me what the Conservative's policies on anything actually are? And how they differ from those of the current Labour government?