Wednesday 18 November 2009
Preferential
Free personal care for the elderly is like abolition of hospital car-parking charges, and abolition of undergraduate fees. Any preferential spending in Scotland must be extended to the whole United Kingdom, paid for by a reduction in the block grant to the Scottish devolved body, which has its own revenue-raising powers with which to make up the shortfall. Easy.
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You've never really grasped this whole devolution thing, have you?
ReplyDeleteNo, I think it's who hasn't. As I expect you to see in the years, possibly months, to come.
ReplyDeleteYou can have preferential spending or you can have fiscal powers, but you can't have both. You certainly can't have spending so preferential that you never need to use your fiscal powers. This one has been simmering away for a decade. Care of the elderly may well bring it to the boil.
ReplyDeleteQuite so. Say it loud, say it often: after all the fuss, Holyrood has never used its fiscal power. And Cardiff doesn't even have one. In that case, what sort of politician wants to be on either? None with any self-respect, or indeed any policies. Hell, even Lanchester Parish Council has a fiscal power. And we use it.
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