“A Conservative MP has likened a proposed directly elected mayor for Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to a “Gauleiter”, a regional Nazi party leader in 1930s Germany.
Sir Henry Bellingham, MP for North-West Norfolk, made clear his opposition to the plan, which is designed to devolve greater power to the regions.
“What we don’t need is a really expensive, costly elected mayor with a fourth tier of local government,” he told local TV.
His comments were criticised by Conservative councillor John Fuller, the leader of South Norfolk Council, who claimed it was “wrong” to compare East Anglian devolution with Germany under Nazi rule” …
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/east-anglia-mayor-to-nazi-official-a6985661.html
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