On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Eric wrote:

Tom Anderson wr

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

Assuming that the right decision is the same one no matter where you are
looking from. Not really a very sensible assumption.

The right decision might be "X in Scotland, Y in England and Wales, and Q
in Berwick". That decision could be made nationally; you don't need
devolution to do that.

Or do you mean that in England, they might think "X all over the UK" was
best, and in Scotland, "Y all over the UK" was best? I'm not impressed by
that case - it doesn't matter what people think, it matters what's best,
so let's just do that.

tom

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