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Devolution doesn't work in a crisis

13 August 2021

11:35 PM

13 August 2021

11:35 PM

One of the worst features of devolution is the tendency of devocrats to insist on doing their own thing in all circumstances and at whatever cost.The idea that decentralisation would lead to experimentation and the sharing of best practice now seems hopelessly naive.

Instead, politicians in Edinburgh and Cardiff try to use nationalism to earth criticism, treating an attack on their records as an insult to the Scottish or Welsh people.

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