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Guide: How to get involved in your regional assembly
So far no one is prepared to say the do want Regional assemblies. This site does have links to the assembly in your own area perhaps we should all write to them as well as the BBC.

Comments on the iCAN site…..

The big con about this is that we have already been foisted with the infrastructure and bureaucracy of regional assemblies. They are already up and running but staffed by placemen and civil servants. The real debate should be about whether or not these assemblies have a point, not whether or not the people should be represented in them.
I doubt we shall see the BBC delivering any programming discussing this issue though.
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The people of England do not want regional assemblies so why do you insist on force feeding us this dead duck? You, the BBC, already mug us annually with your license fee - enough of your New Labour fuelled propaganda!
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Are the BBC’s eyes and ears closed? The NE was chosen as the most likely place to want an elected regional assembly. They overwhelmingly voted against a regional assembly. They speak for the rest of the country WE DO NOT WANT REGIONAL ASSEMBLIES - GET IT!
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What is the BBC doing now except promoting the Government’s agenda against the clearly expressed wishes of the people of England.
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Nobody should be surprised at the depths being plumbed by the BBC in their sycophantic sucking up to their “Fellow Travellers” both in the government and over in Brussels.

The sooner the licence fee is abolished the better.
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I don’t WANT to “get involved” in “my” regional assembly. and neither do the vast majority of the population!
Will you STOP flogging this dead horse.. Its for the knackers yard!
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For goodness sake BBC,despite weeks of bias in favour of a yes vote in the North East;on Look North;National News and any other output which I saw or heard,there has been a decisive NO vote.The only thing left to do with RAs is(to plagiarise Kilroy Silk)Kill them and their
expense.The sooner the better.
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I agree 100% with NNE, Ken & Margaret’s posts.

Wake up & smell the coffee, BBC and Government.
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Shame on you, BBC, for being the mouthpiece of the Government - you used to pride yourselves on your independance.

As for the Government - they have no shame…
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We of the People’s republic of the North East have voted the regional assemlies out. So why have this page?

To inform us of how wonderful 26 people claiming untold expenses and having no powers what so ever. So for those people in doubt about how wonderful regional assemblies are… nearly 700,000 voted against them
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Well, surprise surprise, the BBC now seems to be embarking on a campaign to get us all excited about regional assemblies.

On the day after the landslide rejection of the elected version, up pops a special section on the BBC Online website telling us how the voters can get involved in “your” regional assembly.

As far as the North East is concerned the unelected North East Assembly have already been exposed for misusing public money to campaign for an elected version.

The public in the north east has by a margin of 4 to 1 rejected the idea of an elected assembly and therefore the unelected one has no legitimacy. It is a voluntary body funded by ‘voluntary’ subscriptions from local authorities…and therefore ratepayers.

One would have thought that in a democratic society the voice of the people would be final, obviously, the BBC can not believe in the voice of the people or democracy, as it is now embarking on an exercise to help promote something that the people of England as a whole, have no wish for, do not wish to pay for, and the only region where it was thought these assemblies would be welcome, has voted comprehensively against the proposals.

In 2002 the BBC published a poll which showed that 75% of the people wished for these assemblies, that poll has now been shown to have been exactly the opposite of the people wishes, so the questions needs to be raised why is the BBC now promoting something that is proven to be totally against the wishes of the population of this country?
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The people of the North East have spoken. They do NOT want a Regional Assembly.

It is a dead duck.

Wake up at the BBC.

There are not going to be any Regional Assemblies. The NO group have packed up and gone home, why do you not do the same.