Aware as we might be of the Lib Dems campaign to get Colchester made a unitary authority, it is surely stretching logic to assume all ills will be cured by this.
I am lucky in that I can remember when pre-1960s local Government was not quite so contaminated with big party politics and was the better for it.
Perhaps we could try a return to that system – if only!
In the meantime , if we are to have another level of Government, surely the only moral, honest and democratic thing to do is give England the rights given to the rest of the UK 12 years ago – our own Parliament.
One of the benefits of an English Parliament would be having more of our own tax money to spend.
John Lillywhite
Axial Drive
Colchester
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