Author: Ian Williams

Improving local Government

What happened to the proposed changes:
Where Leighton Andrews and Mark Drakeford ultimately feared to tread, the Welsh Government’s own inimitable attack dog, Alun Davies, was set to get his teeth into Local Government reorganisation.
But, it should have more than a tokenistic tinkering with the map of Wales once again, surely the process has to involve meaningful change this time round.
It’s an opportunity to look afresh at what local democracy should actually meant today, and how it can manifest itself anew in different parts of Wales. The long neglected link up between health care and social care should definitely be on the agenda, as well as democratic control of social housing, a sector which has grown exponentially over the past few years with little or no local scrutiny attached to it.
With Cardiff having a disproportionate slice of the political and economic cake, there is also a strong case for the creation of perhaps no more than 6 regional authorities to counter-balance the Cardiff-centricity of modern Wales, and those authorities imbued with real powers. Which could even perhaps include some element of power of their own, as is the case with local authorities in the thriving Basque Country. This could mean that we could have real devolution rather than the ‘Fred Carno’ set-up we now have to put up with!

WELSH GOVERNMENT

NORTH WALES
REGION

SOUTH WALES EAST REGION

SOUTH WALES WEST REGION

SOUTH WALES CENTRAL REGION

MID & WEST WALES 2 REGION

MID & WEST WALES 1 REGION

A REGION GOVERNENCE BOARD THE CONSISTS OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM EACH REGION. IT WOULD PROBALY CONSIST OF EACH LEADER< CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND FINANCIAL OFFICERS.
WE WOULD SEE POWERS HANDED DOWN FROM THE SENEDD AND IT WOULD THEN NOT NEED TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF POLITICIANS!

Alun Davies, MS for Blaenau Gwent stood up in the Senedd announced that if the local authorities did not changed, he would make them! And what happened he took it to the Welsh Local Government Association and was ‘humiliated’ soon after that he was removed from his position in government!
What a dickhead, my God why does Blaenau Gwent put up with this idiot?