January 20, 2005
Big cities face mayoral referendums
Which is in and of itself sufficient reason to hold referendums[ae??] - local authorities in the UK have a rather bizarre yet utterly complacent belief in their divine right to rule.
'The problem is that at present the number of high-quality council leaders in Britain can be counted on the finger of one hand,' a minister said yesterday."
After all, we do need to be developing the new generation of David Blunketts, don't we??
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