Gordon Brown, Mr Blair's political partner as chancellor of the exchequer and then his successor in Number 10, is no champion of Whitehall either.Others say the problem is the growing centralisation of power, pursued by Margaret Thatcher (in office when the BBC's popular "Yes Minister" comedy series first pitted wily civil servants against floundering politicians) and accelerated under Labour.
The third is the growing centralisation of the internet.
After decades of centralisation, there's a growing consensus that England cities should be granted greater autonomy.
At this point, the idea of centralisation starts to lose its appeal and it is every local baron for himself.Recent opinion polls and Mr Dmitriev's focus groups, held outside Moscow and other big cities, confirm a growing demand for decentralisation, government accountability, an independent judiciary, a free media and the right to protest.
He has admitted that the growing political and economic centralisation of Europe is unavoidable.
But there is growing alarm about the increasing centralisation of power under the right-wing Fidesz government led by Viktor Orban, Hungary's pugnacious prime minister.Fidesz won an unprecedented two-thirds majority in April's general election.
"Centralisation has been growing since 1945, but the response for devolved powers is now greater than ever, probably because England is such a centralised country.
The Andrássy Avenue march was just the latest in a series of public actions against the government's growing autocratic tendencies and its relentless centralisation of power.Monday's protests were significant as well as symbolic.
When the right-wing Fidesz party took power in an election landslide last year, few would have disagreed that the country needed a massive shake-up after eight years of sloth and corruption under the now-imploding Socialists.But concern about Fidesz's relentless centralisation of power is growing, domestically and internationally.
On May 2nd the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs issued a stinging draft report that set out growing concerns about Hungary's new constitution and centralisation of power.
