The Cromwell of planning

NSW Planning Minister Mr Sartor wants to strip councils of their power so as to fit more people into the state.

Mr Sartor has emerged as the Oliver Cromwell of planning, that is, his word is law.

His outrageous actions strike at local democracy and are measures of the corruption of power.

The Planning Minister may know little of English history.

So to enlighten him: Oliver Cromwell was a ruthless dictator.

The people groaned under his puritanical yoke, and they fell over themselves to receive a rather decadent king to replace him.

There's a message here somewhere.

Keith Whitfield Woy Woy