What's all this elected mayors rubbish?

[Kermit power]

Listening to Radio 4 earlier, they were talking about plans for a referendum in various English cities (assuming Wakefield even is a city???).

What sort of drugs are the politicians on here?

So potentially Brummies, Scallies, Bristolians and whatever you call people from Wakefield have some absurd cosmetic change to their council leadership, presumably so our illustrious leaders can tell us about the wonderful job they're doing to ensure fair representation for the English at a time when polls suggest more of us support Scottish independence than do the Scots themselves, whilst conveniently overlooking the fact that those of us who aren't Wakefieldonians end up with an even more bizarre, unbalanced form of government!

Stupid bloody notion!