Police peril

Even the Sunday Times columnist Simon Jenkins now sees the grave peril of tyranny in which the country stands. While between the lines admitting that the danger clearly arises from the EU imposed appointed Regional Assemblies as a front for centralised authority he hesitates to go the full distance by pointing this out to his readers. His column in this morning's paper may be read from this link with the most important point to my mind being within this passage: Regionalism is now code for central government, be it hospitals, economic development, housing targets, planning policy and doubtless soon education. Power taken from democratic institutions and given to appointed ones is power concentrated. Anyone who has been interviewed and box-ticked for quango service will know what this means. Nationalisation is what it says: ownership and regulation by agents of the state. Readers of this blog will not need to have pointed out the true facts namely, that the apponted regional quangoes are in fact controlled from Brussels albeit if presently via the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Strange Mr Jenkins so carefully skirted that point!