April 2011

Mark Borkowski and Matt Golding why the AV campaign was a damp squib

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Published April 27, 2011, in Politics


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Out of Proportion

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Published April 27, 2011, in Elected mayors


The campaign really has been a damp squib. Any interest for those which do not get excited about constitutional and political reform has only been in the (alleged) spats between “Coalition Colleagues.” It really wasn’t meant to be like this.

Personally, I will be voting YES on 5th May. But the YEStoAV campaign has been pretty poor. No, it’s been abysmal. The messages have been far from clear; the argument has not be set out and it’s not had the right mix of champions to carry the case. The whole “make your MP work harder”thing has been silly.

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Prisk defends LEP programme

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Published April 25, 2011, in LEPs


Business and Enterprise Minister Mark Prisk has mounted a spirited defence of Local Enterprise Partnerships.

Writing in , he defends the way the post-RDA bodies have been developed:

We have deliberately not set out a strict set of guidelines or frameworks for the partnerships to follow. To do so – especially in legislation – would have hamstrung the partnerships’ freedom before they even started. We must move away from the last government’s ‘top-down’ approach to governing, and allow partnerships to determine the form and functions which are most suitable and effective for businesses their area.

Elsewhere, he endorses the role of LEPs in helping businesses apply for support from the Regional Growth Fund, and says they’ll also have a say in how European funding is distributed:

Local areas will not lose out on European money, either. The Department for Communities and Local Government has always had responsibility for delivering the European Regional Development Fund in England. Local authorities will have a strategic role to play in delivery of the fund, as will local enterprise partnerships.

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Mayors: Regional government by the back door?

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Published April 12, 2011, in Elected mayors


Andrew Adonis

Andrew Adonis

His in the letters pages of  The has not dimmed the enthusiasm of the government’s ‘elected mayor czar’ Andrew Adonis, who is touring the country to drum up support for this most loathed of ideas (amongst elected councillors, at least).

In a , the former Labour transport minister – and now director of the – cheerfully surveys the ranks of opposition lined up against elected mayors in Liverpool:

A decade ago the Liverpool Democracy Commission, including David Alton and Bishop of Liverpool James Jones, recommended an elected mayor to “help transform the city’s image and external profile” and its “sustained failure of leadership”. The city’s local politicians – and there are a lot of them, with 90 members of the city council – ignored the report.

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