On Mar 31, 9:54*pm, Tom Anderson wrote:

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Mizter T wrote:

On Mar 31, 12:53*pm, Ian Jelf wrote:

In message , Neil Williams
writes
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I never quite worked out why the responsibility for these schemes had
to be devolved. *It makes no sense to me.

No, nor to me.

Eh?! It's what devolution is *all about* - devolving the decisions for a
wide range of activities to the national bodies in Scotland and Wales.
It makes for better government.

Why, and could you supply examples?

Devolution seems completely daft to me. Make the right decision, and make
it once.

You serious? That's a pretty technocratic and rather unwordly way of
looking at things, if I may say. By extension you'd have a single
European or even world government. Also, do you disapprove of any
local governance, such as the GLSA arranegements?

Apart from anything else, devolution in Scotland had pretty much
become a political necessity - the clamour for it had grown so strong
over the preceding years. And in Northern Ireland, whilst the story is
very different, again it's pretty much a political necessity to have
devolution arrangements in order for any progress to be made. The
picture in Wales is like as clear cut.nothing like as clear cut.