Devon County Council: Wasting Money
Devon County Council’s decision to try to stop Exeter getting control of its own affairs is a staggering waste of local people’s money.
After the huge sums Devon has already wasted on its own bid for unitary status, which it then withdrew, blowing yet more public money trying to thwart democracy in Exeter is little short of scandalous.
The Tories who run Devon pay lip service to local democracy and devolving power - but not when it comes to one of Englands great historic cities, it would seem!
Tags: Devon, Exeter City Council, Unitary
February 28th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Dear Mr Bradshaw
My comment is nothing to do with this. It is simply to express my utter dismay at your recent comments on the BBC. The failure of you and the Labour Party that I have supported all of my life to express support for public service broadcasting is an act of singular betrayal. That the BBC should be attacked by a Labour minister when it is in the middle of a golden age of broadcasting, provided more cheaply and efficiently than any other system in the world, brings comfort only to the its many corporate and ideological enemies. The BBC represents all that the cultural policy of an enlightened social democratic party should be championing. Abolition of the licence fee would hand broadcasting to the global media conglomerates, send costs soaring, menace objective journalism and ruin a flagship institution of our society. Perhaps you can tell me what my licence fee would get me from some of the BBC’s rivals. Three months of Sky Sports as far as I can see.
Thank you at least for helping me decide how to vote.