And let’s be very clear, the Scottish Government’s notion of ‘community empowerment’ needs to be treated with a large dose of scepticism. There is no appetite in the Scottish Government to create any alternative sources of authority. The Scottish Government is eloquent in the language of progressive politics but poor in its practice

The mythical ‘man in Whitehall knows best’ has been replaced by the ‘person in St Andrews House knows best’, an advance in equality among elites, but a retrograde step in devolution’s promise of sharing power

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