[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

I'm taking an evidence-based approach and not the ideological one which you espouse. The funds were allocated before, a promise was made that this would continue and it's not happened in this financial year. That's clearly not better. Councils and development agencies need to fund projects with cash not political ideologies.

Chris said in part of his post:

The logic behind your position is that our own government and our own democratic processes are not to be trusted and we need a remote organisation to do these things for us in order for them to be done properly. That’s a position I find rather worrying.

I think that you dodged answering that highly important point. OK, so it wasn't a question - but this is:

Do you accept the point made by Chris?