It's been a long haul but not there yet. Needs to happen.
Stewart McDonald@StewartMcDonald
An important change - but only if party whips leave it to members themselves to decide who to vote for.
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James Mitchell
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James Mitchell
@ProfJMitchell
Professor of Public Policy, Edinburgh University
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Imagine responding splenetically to this post from @mspliz dearie me.
Liz Smith CBE MSP@mspliz
As l head back to Holyrood this morning 👇
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Ministers deliver little more than speeches. We need to spend more time and attention engaging with those who actually deliver public services.
Dr Barry Black@BarryBlackNE
@ProfJMitchell Particularly when it’s not those Ministers who will be tasked with delivering it!
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James Mitchell รีทวีตแล้ว
For the first time ever, Greater Manchester has an outstanding fire and rescue service manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-m…
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'concerns about deliverability'... then Bill should not be presented until addressed. Ministers delivering speeches is easy. Delivering improved outcomes requires seriousness of purpose.
@GinaDavidson@ginadavidsonlbc
But there are major concerns about deliverability. Parliament’s education committee was v critical in its report & @COSLA says it “risks unintended consequences for children and young people” & estimated costs are projected to rise from +£150m in 2027/28 to +£270m by 2029/30 3/4
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Indeed. The old arithmetic teacher's injunction 'show your workings' needs to be demanded of these campaigning claims.
Lucy Hunter Blackburn@LucyHunterB
One way or another, this suggests encouraging an awful lot of new childminders into (or in some cases back into) self-employment. My sums on this produce such different figures, depending how I do it, that it would be better to ask the policy's proposers what they are assuming🙃
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James Mitchell รีทวีตแล้ว
@ProfJMitchell Before Scotland builds new democratic structures it would be sensible to fix the Parliament it already has. Transparency, scrutiny and accountability comes first anything else risks building on sand.
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Goes further back. 2007 SNP manifesto. Like the French Bourbon dynasty, they 'have learned nothing and forgotten nothing'.
Chris Musson@ChrisMusson
Erm.. x.com/staylorish/sta…
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Interesting and welcome constructive contribution. We need more like this.
The Reid Foundation@ReidFoundation
'People's senate' could strengthen Holyrood scrutiny, says new manifesto. And it suggested Scotland's borrowing powers should be increased while also recommending a series of reforms to planning, devolved taxes and local government. scotsman.com/news/politics/…
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James Mitchell รีทวีตแล้ว
This from the @FOIScotland is quite extraordinary. To be clear since 2005, the SIC has never referred a public authority to the Court for non-compliance/contempt of court. He has now done so twice this year over FOIs submitted by me in relation to the
foi.scot/preposterous-e…
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This is shocking and should raise alarm bells. Are there any SNP elected politicians willing to speak out on this?
Scottish Information Commissioner@FOIScotland
Scottish Information Commissioner @DvdHmltn said he “can no longer trust the Government to handle this information unsupervised” following what he described as a “breach of trust” by the Scottish Government. Read more: tinyurl.com/Non-Compliance…
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James Mitchell รีทวีตแล้ว
"I can no longer trust the government to handle this information unsupervised and will explore more intrusive options to ensure compliance."
Truly extraordinary stuff.
Conor Matchett@conor_matchett
Scot Gov could be taken held in contempt of court AGAIN over the Hamilton files, the Scottish Information Commissioner has said David Hamilton says non-disclosure of some legal advice led to "preposterous and unacceptable" excuses. Quite the broadside foi.scot/preposterous-e…
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A sober warning from 16 years ago. Ignored as problems mounted and promises blithely continued. Whatever happened to fiscal responsibility? Another meaningless soundbite.
Sam Taylor@staylorish
@ProfJMitchell Kate Forbes equally culpable. Arguably more culpable. Robison has never given the impression that she knows what she’s doing, but Forbes was absolutely full of herself.
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All she is saying here has been known for years, warned about by various bodies and individuals. Failure to act has made matters far worse as the challenges were allowed to accumulate.
Sam Taylor@staylorish
Giving evidence yesterday to the @SP_FinancePAC committee, Shona Robison came close to admitting that she has set public spending on an unsustainable path. She does appear to acknowledge that a great many chickens will come home to roost in the next parliament.
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James Mitchell รีทวีตแล้ว
some thoughts.
1. Members bill proposals take time to enter the parliament given the consultation and multi party signing up required. The process is better at Holyrood than at Westminster because there is a public consultation pre introduction and there is then evidence at stage
Conor Matchett@conor_matchett
Holyrood's *checks notes* four day long debate three weeks before an election recess on an Assisted Dying bill discussed since 2021 a good example of the flaws of a parliament that fails miserably to prioritise what should be its central job: passing and debating legislation.
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We certainly need more coordination and joint working as well as lesson drawing across jurisdictions. Devolution involves defining devolved and retained competences but also, crucially, shared areas that do not fit neatly into legally defined competences.
Ian Grant@IanGrant_edwest
@Robert4LibDems @ProfJMitchell If Scottish Gov & UK Gov are both spending on capital projects within devolved areas of responsibility without coordination, the result will hardly represent efficient joined up government. The purpose of devolution surely was to give Scottish Gov power in these devolved areas
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It is at least consistent and logical from a principled nationalist position to object to any UK Govt involvement that impacts on Scotland though, as you note, this includes supporting cuts in public funding.
mandy rhodes@holyroodmandy
Objecting to money being spent in Scotland because it is being done by a UK government is an interesting political tactic 🤷♀️
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This manufactured grievance tells more about febrile state of politics as an election approaches probably more than ignorance of how devolution works.
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These issues have been raised continuously under devolution. Explored these in a large research project on 'Devolution and the Centre' in early years. Failure to send such instructions across Whitehall would be worth criticising.
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Indeed. It's a standard memo on how to engage with devolved administrations and different parts of UK re announcements on UK Govt policy and allocations plus importance of coordination of all within competences of UK Govt. It would be odd if this was not done.
Born on Love Street@BornonLoveStre1
@julesMcBot @ProfJMitchell Which specific part of the memo does this?
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