"Now Harold Wilson’s Labour government had a taste for reorganisation. In June 1966, it appointed John Redcliffe-Maud – civil servant, academic, baron – to rethink things from the bottom up, and to come up with a system that didn't rely on country boundaries first set in the age of King Alfred."
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JRM: “I can’t wait to find out how the great northern city of Selnec is getting on.”
where Grifters grift at our expense freedom rights & our Environment, without Local or Council democratic interference that simply transfers activity from regulated taxable locations leaving them denuded & robbed.
but many of us fear that our much needed de-centralisation & re-funding of existing Council frameworks will be plagued by simply shifting funds & energy into these already begun (lobbied4) enterprise zones that detract from the real levelling up demanded by so many of the Electorate
I remember folks getting very upset about a planned "Solent City" in the early 1970s, but I'm too young to remember any more than that 😉
Looking at all the flooding today, there might be room for environmental and river management authorities (and maybe water companies) to be divided up by significant river catchments.
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“Now, though, you can be 35 and still living like a student. And why shouldn’t you? You’re renting with strangers, and you’re not going to have that house in the suburbs any time soon, are you?”
I wonder if this stands up outside London, where people can afford to live?