Summary
Few proposals have progressed with greater confidence in public enthusiasm for change than the Scotland Bill. Who is not for more fiscal powers for Scotland? How can the argument not be considered broadly won bar the final fussing with minutiae?
Yet a cooling zephyr of scepticism may be setting in. Might it be that the advocates of more fiscal powers have not quite the serried ranks of supporters as they claim? There is the risk of a divide between the political class in Scotland and voters - between those inside the "Holyrood Bubble" and those looking in. Barely have we embarked on this legislation than we may be disenfranchising a significant number of them.See the full content of this document
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Case for More Fiscal Power Not Proven
I refer to those who fall into none of the established camps laying claim to broad voter consensus, if not on this Bill then at least on its direction of travel: the SNP, the advocates of greater fiscal autonomy than the Bill proposes, and the supporters of the Bill itself. Indeed, what we are...
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