Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by jfman
(Post 36058949)
Although equally powers under the Civil Contingencies Act also carry greater opportunities for scrutiny than the public health regulations being used. Arguments have been made that the CCA was not used to get around this.
That said the case for keeping the devolved administrations in the tent rather than outside it slinging mud is compelling.
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There was a clear potential political benefit in forcing Nicola Sturgeon to govern, rather than endlessly campaigning, in the hope that even her most ardent supporters would come to see her as a fallible human just like the rest of us.
It doesn’t seem to have happened so far though. :D
In most respects you can barely get a fag paper in between her decisions and Boris’. Where more obvious differences exist they’re around timing and necessary adjustments for local circumstances. Their approaches simply aren’t fundamentally different. Yet Nicola is very popular and Boris ... isn’t. The polls presently tell us a lot more about how politics is viewed in England and in Scotland than how people really feel about coronavirus measures. |
