Regional Democracy comes from below, it's about being positive and actively taking responsibility. Devolution by necessity comes from above, ceding responsibility from the top downwards. Maybe the two will meet on the way.
Around the world democracy is struggling and needs strengthening. It’s time we ensured that people are placed at the heart of how decisions are made, how places are shaped, and how services are run.
This may come as a shock to some, but “devolution” is not a very sexy word. It is not particularly popular with headline writers or SEO specialists, which goes some way to explain why you don’t read too many news stories about the joys of shifting power from Westminster down to local levels.
Recently the launch of the Government’s ‘Civil Society Strategy’ which outlines the Government’s approach to strengthen civil society through the private, social and public sector with a particular emphasis upon people and place.
The Northern Powerhouse was created by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne who was the Conservative MP for Tatton.
Well if we wanted to live in “interesting times” we have them right now by the bucketful – a lame duck government, a non-existent opposition and seemingly no Brexit plan.
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