Don\'t think it will make the slighest bit difference.
the process will go like this
agree to an assembly
loads of folks get made redundant and have to be paid off, then get a job straight away as part of new assembly. Spend loads more money setting up the infrastructure which will basically re-create whats therre already. Spend loads more money developing and \'assmebly building\' probably in Newcastle.
spend loads more money telling us all haow great it is.
spend loads more money cos when the bills come it was all under estimated costs wise (see holyrood!)
council tax gets abolished to be replaced with local income tax, which suprise suprise costs more than the old council tax system
Personally I think its a jobs for the boys set up. There will be those that are in that particular world who will make pots of cash from it and have a job for life (tony\'s cronies) Us mere moratls will just get bent over a table and rogered senseless from behind
I just don\'t see the need to spend all that money, to do what we are doing already. It\'ll give the region a voice independant of central government, yeah right believe that and you\'ll believe me that I caught a 30lb cod using jelly babies as bait on shileds pier.
If the region isn\'t getting a voice in government at present, how is a small local council (ie wear valley) going to get a voice in the assembly which will be dominated by the big boys (newcastle, sunderland boro etc)
It just a recipe for disaster and completley un-necessary
wales and scotland supposedly have and indepenat parliament now, except if tony says jump they all shout how high
whatever tony says it will cost, at least double it or treble it and then think how many hospitals. schools, nurses, teachers etc we could have for the same money.
The costs in scotland for devolution are now nearly 2bn, holyrood was quoted as going to cost 35 million, final price 440million. Thats a lot of text books in the schools.
A friend of mine was one of the barristers at the enquiry. It was a case of snouts in the trough and who can get the most fastest. Office chairs were 900 quid each, Ho delicate and arsehole do mp\'s have that they need to sit on a 900 quid chair. I\'d even challenge you to find and office chair that costs that much. each mp\'s office has its own bathroom - at a cost of 30grand. thirty grand for a lavvy and a shower! and on it goes and it\'ll be exactly the same here
better stop before I go completely off on one.
If you haven\'t read animal farm before or since you were a kid read it again. Its really an incisive documentary on new labour!
