Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
I am not a believer of central managemeent, hence why I suggested aspects of management should move north to Scotland and Northern Ireland, opposed to just sitting in London like you suggested. I believe that ultimately, there should be universal aspects to somethings, as evidence by economics of scale and otherthings, but many aspects I believe should be far more local. For example, Foreign policy should be a national aspect, collecting the garbage should be local, etc. Other aspects should be regional, as such, I believe in having democratic regional assemblies which only act on regional issues. This would also be in your boat as it gets rid of the "West Lothian" question, where Scottish MP's decide on policies that wouldn't affect them. The national body would only do matters which affect things nationally.
what you say here i agree with, but your example jars with that ambition by suggesting the tunnel should be north to push business north.

as to regional assemblies, getting OT, but i disagree with them as planned by labour as they were merely another layer of government between national and local. if you meant devolution from westminster to edinburgh or cardiff them i am broadly agreed.