Hain calls for NE Regional Assembly: Numpty

Will Green in the Journal has reported that the concept of English Regional Assemblies is still on the socialist agenda.

It come to something when a failed Europe Minister and Welsh MP starts to instruct the people of the North East as to what is good for them.
Mr Hain said during a talk at the London School of Economics: “It could be a regional government in the North East of England – rejected, I know, in 2004 but rejected on a kind of Mickey Mouse offer where the powers were not really real and the timing wasn’t right.
“Under a Tory-led Government, I think we could easily win that referendum now.”

Ian Mearns, MP for Gateshead and former chairman of the campaign for a North East assembly, said the region needed a “strong voice” to take on an increasingly powerful Scotland and a distant Whitehall.

Of course for Labour such a thing would be valuable as it would give them a permanent toehold in English governance, something that isn't guaranteed in any other way.

What the people of the NE would think about it, and the guaranteed waste of public money pushing, propagandising and voting for it is another matter.

They are just so desperate.