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After posting below I check my news feeds, low and behold, after a well earned rest
Neil Herronhas two posts with reference to EU regionalisation.

I was unaware of the Tory policy or Tory wish made by SHADOW Chancellor Oliver Letwin

Tory wants Assembly out

“Mr Letwin having announced the party’s plan to abolish the eight regional assemblies in the country as part of its spending plan said their work could easily be done by other local authorities.

Mr Letwin said: “Nowhere in Britain is there a better example of wasteful and unnecessary bureaucracy than the so-called unelected, unnecessary regional assemblies.

“There is nothing that these bodies do that couldn’t better be done by somebody else, and getting rid of them will be a benefit all round.

“There’s a cost (of having them), a talking shop, and no useful result.”

He added: “We’re determined to focus spending on people’s priorities and to get better for value for taxpayers money by cutting back on the rest of Government so that we can eliminate wasteful and unnecessary bureaucracy and cut taxes.”

And

Now it’s starting to happen

CHESHIRE County Council is set to deliver a serious blow to the North West Regional Assembly by giving a year’s notice to quit the organisation.
The council’s Executive was advised by the strategic policy panel to announce that it will withdraw from the assembly on March 31, 2006.
Cheshire’s Tory administration is deeply dissatisfied about the management methods, increasing costs, bureaucracy and lack of transparency of the Assembly.
Leaders also doubt whether its current objectives are in the best interests of the people of Cheshire.

Communications Executive member Eveleigh Moore Dutton, recently resigned as vice chairman of the Assembly’s European Affairs Key Policy Group, believing that the county’s Council Tax payers were not benefiting adequately from membership.