Briefings held for potential West Merica Police commissioner (From Kidderminster Shuttle)

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  walkerno5 wrote:
  I don't think you can lay this all at the current governments door, New Labour are just as culpable.
  
  What did we expect after electing someone as shiny as Blair?

  Absolutely I agree entirely, we could probably even go back to Winston Churchill, or at least Mrs Thatcher and her well known love affair with Ronald Reagan.
  
  But I think things are qualitatively different now.
  Since 9/11 Britain has been the junior partner in the US crusade for global domination and a willing participant in all the hydrocarbon wars that have resulted during the past decade.
  
  However, the planned introduction of American forms of governance, like elected mayors and police commissioners, represent a new and in my opinion, a more incidious affront to the history and traditions of this country.
  
  It is what I think is known as cultural imperialism in some quarters, others just call it 'dumbing down'."
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