Peter Davies,the new supermayor of Doncaster,Yorkshire,takes the axe to political correctness and public spending. (The Mail,On line,by Robert Hardman,)
Peter Davies,is the new Executive mayor of Doncaster,South Yorkshire. Executive mayors were created by Tony Blair in an attempt to give greater automony to the provinces in Britain. Davies supervises a cabinet that controls education,transport,social services and pretty much everything else across his domain. There are 12 of these fiefdoms and Doncaster is by far the biggest of these,
“Within a week of his election Mr. Davies has slashed his own salary from 73,000 pounds to 30,000 pounds,scrapped the mayoral limousine and abolished the council’s free newspaper”.
“He has written to the Electoral Commission asking them to scrap two-thirds of Doncaster’s 63 council seats in order to save the town 800,000 pounds p.a.”.
“He wants to cut all non-jobs in his 13,500 workforce- such as platinum-pensioned cohesion officers and aims to shrivel future pay deals for council executives”.
He will get rid of Doncaster’s 5 twin towns and is mounting an assault of “the culture of political correctness”. He has scrapped funding Gay Pride events,scrapped funding for council translation services and stopped giving gipsies special treatment.
He says,“I’m not green and I’m not conned by global warming”….”Why do we expect pregnant women to work?”
On council affiliations,“I don’t want to join things –I want to unjoin them”.
He will also withdraw funding from the Black History month and is continuing with his pledge to rid Doncaster of political correctness.
It looks as though the mayor will be going to war with the gargantuan forces of Town Hall bureacrats and inertia so he has enlisted the help from the Taxpayers Alliance,Campaign Against Political Correctness and a team of external accountants,who have been invited to look through Doncaster’s books.
The town is a mining town and was red but it is also known for it’s political scandals,several greedy councillors ended up doing time after the “Donnygate fraud trials of the Nineties”.
If Mr. Davies wins his war the town could become famous for turning the tide against the modern political class. Pauline Hanson had her chance in Australia to do the same but her enemies were too clever and powerful.
Doncaster was a Labour town for many years but at the last election dissolutioned voters threw out both Labour and Conservatives.
