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Originally Posted by nomadking
Pandemic planning was devolved long before this year.
2011 Scottish report.
Imagine the bleating if anything had been UK-wide.
Still of course dodging the US issue. |
You know what would be great ... if you talked in complete sentences and made some effort to explain what on earth you’re on about.
What is the US issue and who is dodging it?
As far as pandemic influenza is concerned, you might not have noticed but this isn’t an influenza pandemic and it was fairly clear, quite early on, that Covid doesn’t behave like influenza. The Civil Contingencies Act is there and available (and, frankly, could have been used even if a flu pandemic got bad enough). No amount of planning done by the Scottish Government changes that. Their 2011 report was prepared on the basis of public health powers that have been devolved since the outset of devolution itself.
You are factually wrong to assert that the UK government cannot legally act UK wide to control the covid pandemic. You are wrong on the basis of laws already passed, and you are wrong on the constitutional basis because devolution does not prevent the Westminster parliament from legislating on anything, at any time. This is because we don’t have a written constitution with an associated supreme constitutional court - unlike the USA where the legal situation is very different.
There, I’ve given you your starter for ten...