I end up staring at and admiring formulations like this for far too long.
> The county would also have more powers and funding for adult education, transport, employment and skills.
Aka: you start running it and we'll devolve *some* of the money previously used to run it.
7 years in local govt has made me *very* cynical about devolution of powers without any devolution of tax raising!
Ben Thompson 🐕 /
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2024-09-20 08:47:06
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