The recession has caused many American banks to withdraw from a scheme that allowed international students to obtain a financing loan of up to $150,000 without having an American guarantor.
Liverpool's Labour council has withdrawn from a scheme intended to give community groups and volunteers more control over services.
They argue the "the weight and strength of environmental evidence" should lead the government to withdraw the scheme, designed to ease congestion around the notorious traffic blackspot around the Brynglas tunnels on the M4.
Mr Leach added: "Our concern is this is a drug that politicians could get hooked on and it will be very difficult to get them off, because people will start saying 'If we withdraw the scheme, it will drive down prices and make the economy weaker'.
Our concern is this is a drug that politicians could get hooked on and it will be very difficult to get them off, because people will start saying 'If we withdraw the scheme, it will drive down prices and make the economy weaker'.
If claimants withdraw from the scheme after a week they can have their benefits stopped.
The Environment Agency has withdrawn an earlier objection to the scheme over concerns about flooding.
The removal of the sanction after one week was a key demand of employers, some of whom said they would withdraw from the scheme unless reforms were made.
He said a lot of large companies were coming under pressure from right-to-work activists to withdraw from the scheme.
Things grew complicated as a "diplomat" go-between instructed her to pay huge sums for supposed documents needed to release the supposed trunks, and warned that she was now implicated and could not withdraw from the scheme.
