#Devolution

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Abolish the Welsh Assembly Debunked - a thread 1. ‘’Devolution is too expensive’’Truth: Including staffing, Assembly members, building costs, the Welsh Assembly costs only £58 million a year, while Westminster,

Alexander Phillips

AlexLeoPhillips

While the Conservatives are yet to get their attack lines right on the UKIM and devolution, I do think that framing it with the M4 is a fine bit of

Chris Davison

ChrisRDavison

I am a federalist and think Blair made a mistake in creating an unbalanced devolution settlement across the UK but devolution in Scotland itself has not been a bad thing.

Andy Maciver

akmaciver

You can catch up with my views on #BorisJohnson’s #devolution comments on last night’s @ScotlandTonight and this morning’s #BBCGMS. But here’s a small thread in addition. Firstly, Boris is famously

Ifan Morgan Jones

ifanmj

What's interesting about polling on the Covid-19 pandemic and Welsh devolution is that despite highlighting the issue like never before in Wales all the polling suggests that people's opinions on

Heinz Brandenburg

HzBrandenburg

Unionists like Starmer would really need to start thinking about how to reach young Scottish voters, who are around 70% in favour of independence.And understand why they are in such

Kenny Farquharson

KennyFarq

The error being made by the London commentariat on devolution is to say it was intended as a political fix to counter nationalism, and to judge it on that basis.

Eileen May

suleskerry

Boris Johnson's Tory UKGov is plotting 'biggest power grab yet' on Holyrood. “They know they can’t win an election for Scottish Parliament, so have come up with a scheme to

Paul Waugh

paulwaugh

New letter from ministers to the Lords on Internal Market Bill. Looks like attempt at olive branch on devolution. Gives Scottish, Welsh and NI govts right to be consulted. But

John Denham

JYDenham

Quick take on Starmer’s union speech would be:Primarily aimed at a Scottish audience (understandably) English devolution conceived entirely as devolution from the UK government, no mention of change at national

Nicola McEwen

McEwen_Nicola

Okay. So having read Starmer's speech, I am none the wiser about Labour's devolution policy, other than to set up (another) commission to come up with a policy. I have

Nicola Sturgeon

NicolaSturgeon

1/ The Internal Market Bill that the U.K. government will publish today is a full frontal assault on devolution. And to the usual “but the SNP would say that” voices,

James Millar

PoliticalYeti

Anyone surprised by this has not been paying attention. This government is not convinced by devolution. And here’s the thing, that’s ok... 1/https://twitter.com/hrwritesnews/status/1328470172177412097 The 97 devolution settlement only w

Louise Butcher

LouiseBTS

1/4 Quite a bit of reporting today about what Grant Shapps said yesterday @CommonsTrans about the future of the #railway.A reminder that unless there is primary legislation, any reform to

Duncan Hothersall🌹

dhothersall

Lots of chat about whether #devolution has been worthwhile this morning, and I understand why some who, like me, favour Scotland remaining in the UK might think it was a

Miftah Ismail

MiftahIsmail

The continued misgovernance in Karachi has brought sharp focus to the need for either creating more and smaller provinces in Pakistan (perhaps converting every division into a province) or of

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