BBC Promoting Regional Assemblies
November 7, 2004 by Ken
Filed under The Best of the Rest
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?
