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My intentions ...
Should we even ask yet…?
For local govt there are 4 key aspects to the question
Devolution and local government - a symbiotic relationship?
Devolution – a challenge for central and local government….
Is local government important?
Scale of local government in Scotland
One hundred years ago…..
However change is continuous..even in our pavements
And there was an ‘Edinburgh’ Water Works
Golden age - when?
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However -local government does things
But it is often condemned as doing them badly
Views in Scotland on local government...
But maybe the ‘public’ have inconsistent views..
So the devolution process is easily damned by ‘Municipalism’
Yet where is the taint of ‘municipalism’?
Who got the right message on all that local government experience?
How does the ‘old lags’ view express itself?
In Scotland as in Westminster..
Local govnt + Devolved institutions Councillors’ views
The paradox of [ALL] government
The symptoms/causes of [terminal?] decline
Voting less: than our neighbours, than our elders..
Collective endeavour in an individualised society?
Public aspirations <> private endeavours
Increasing ‘horizontal’ homogenisation of service activity
Government ‘Good’ intentions
Government ‘ill’ intentions
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Contrasting past- contrasting futures..
Some modest proposals
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I somehow think we are not ready…..
Thank you!
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