10-15-2020, 09:17 PM
The quiet man is turning up the volume, and doing it in front of a home crowd as well.
McCrimmon does a good job at picking at some of the exposed stitching on Macmillan's plan, especially when it comes to the inherent anchoring to Westminster involved in the Tory plan. The concept of a First Minister of Scotland having to answer cap in hand to the Prime Minister is one that attracts anywhere from discomfort to outright disgust in the majority of devolution-supporting Scots, and McCrimmon is wise to capitalise on that fact.
That being said, those who listened to the speech more carefully will notice that the Labour devolution plan is lacking in detail in comparison to the Tory one. Specifically, there was no mention of what issues were going to be devolved, in contrast to Macmillan setting out clearly what the remit of this new Parliament would be. It's not the end of the world, but I felt it was something that was lacking.
Extra points for the fantastic use of the word "fandan"
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McCrimmon does a good job at picking at some of the exposed stitching on Macmillan's plan, especially when it comes to the inherent anchoring to Westminster involved in the Tory plan. The concept of a First Minister of Scotland having to answer cap in hand to the Prime Minister is one that attracts anywhere from discomfort to outright disgust in the majority of devolution-supporting Scots, and McCrimmon is wise to capitalise on that fact.
That being said, those who listened to the speech more carefully will notice that the Labour devolution plan is lacking in detail in comparison to the Tory one. Specifically, there was no mention of what issues were going to be devolved, in contrast to Macmillan setting out clearly what the remit of this new Parliament would be. It's not the end of the world, but I felt it was something that was lacking.
Extra points for the fantastic use of the word "fandan"
1 XP