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item0021A 510,511 510 11 November 2002 Mayoral Games The Labour Cabinet should be thoroughly ashamed of having unleashed the pantomime of mayoral elections throughout the UK. If there was ever a political disaster waiting to happen, this was it. Many of us, with extensive experience of collegiate local government, warned of the pitfalls ahead. Local government has become a laughing stock, and it must be doubtful whether District government as a whole will survive the debacle. New Labour, obsessed by the "heroic" view of politics, persistently made the wrong judgments. I made my own views clear in 1999 -
New Labour ignored my plea for the retention of collegiate government, pressed on with Local Government Act 2000 - and is now presiding over a meltdown of local government. Radical surgery will be needed to achieve both the accommodation of the new political salariat and the legitimate aspirations of thousands of local communities, disregarded to date by the process of constitutional reform.What do you think? Drop me a line
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"Poor Burrell" The Queen? Not Guilty Paul Burrell is the pitiable victim of English social class - and has been rightly acquitted of the allegations against him. But the catalogue of professional legal incompetence is difficult to credit..As a young teenager , he seems to have conceived an obsession for the flummery of royalty - he entered Royal service at the age of 19, later marrying a Royal chambermaid. His obsession was lived out. In recalling his Royal service he reported innocently -
Can Paul be a contemporary of ours, in 21st century Britain? Can the Duke of Edinburgh really be a contemporary of ours? Curtseying and kneeling? Can Royal flummery still generate such subservience, such servility, such self-effacing cap-doffing grovelling? But politicians and Press have wrongly criticised the Queen's "failure to identify" the significance of the Burrell conversation. The Queen had been told by the Police that there was good evidence against Burrell, and she was right not to intervene. It was only very late in the day, when the woeful Prosecution failed to adduce any evidence of wrongdoing, and attacked the poor Burrell "for not having told anyone about it" that the wind of argument suddenly changed. Suddenly the Royal chat moved into the limelight, and Prince Charles deserves great credit for having understood the point and taken action.
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