January newsletter
Author: Localis |
New Year’s Devolution
As we enter the febrile atmosphere of a general election year, it is perhaps fanciful to hope for non-stop reasoned debate over policy between now and May. But we at Localis are hopeful that the decentralisation of power away from Whitehall will at least continue to be a key issue in politics throughout the coming year, as it did in the last.
Indeed, it seems that 2014 was a watershed year for devolution in the public discourse. For all its highly vocal and sometimes petulant debate, the Scottish independence referendum really did push the idea that some things are done better away from Whitehall into the limelight.
As ever, Localis was doing its best to promote this devolution agenda during the last year and we will continue to do so in 2015. With a new Government almost upon us, it is vital that we and others continue to push for power to be dispersed away from Westminster and closer to local people and their communities.