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This is the conceptual flaw at the heart of #GeorgeOsborne's programme of #devolution, and the #LabourParty's adoption of it.

Power devolved is power retained.

Devolution is a top-down project. A genuine programme of political reform would make power flow from the bottom up. Britain knows how to do that, because it designed a bottom-up constitution for the Federal Republic of Germany.

#Charter88 was shouting this nearly 40 years ago — and @ChrisMayLA6 was there at the heart of it! 👏🏼👏🏼

This is the conceptual flaw at the heart of #GeorgeOsborne's programme of #devolution, and the #LabourParty's adoption of it.

Power devolved is power retained.

Devolution is a top-down project. A genuine programme of political reform would make power flow from the bottom up. Britain knows how to do that, because it designed a bottom-up constitution for the Federal Republic of Germany.

#Charter88 was shouting this nearly 40 years ago — and @ChrisMayLA6 was there at the heart of it! 👏🏼👏🏼

This is the conceptual flaw at the heart of #GeorgeOsborne's programme of #devolution, and the #LabourParty's adoption of it.

Power devolved is power retained.

Devolution is a top-down project. A genuine programme of political reform would make power flow from the bottom up. Britain knows how to do that, because it designed a bottom-up constitution for the Federal Republic of Germany.

#Charter88 was shouting this nearly 40 years ago — and @ChrisMayLA6 was there at the heart of it! 👏🏼👏🏼

This is the conceptual flaw at the heart of #GeorgeOsborne's programme of #devolution, and the #LabourParty's adoption of it.

Power devolved is power retained.

Devolution is a top-down project. A genuine programme of political reform would make power flow from the bottom up. Britain knows how to do that, because it designed a bottom-up constitution for the Federal Republic of Germany.

#Charter88 was shouting this nearly 40 years ago — and @ChrisMayLA6 was there at the heart of it! 👏🏼👏🏼