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Comment	>I imagine indy is going to happen quite soon; during that process the entire framework of govt will obviosuly change. Local government is a devolved competence. Why not start now? You're an SNP councillor. Why not propose motions at conference to have the SNP implement in full the recommendations of the 2014 COSLA report or the SGP/Wightman "Renewing Scotland's Local Democracy" report? Why not ask the leadership to explain why the Local Governance Review, promised in the 2016 and 2022 SNP manifestos, is proceeding at a pace which makes glaciers look like F1 cars, and will almost certainly now see its recommendations only be implemented in the next Parliament? Why not hold the SNP Holyrood leadership accountable for presiding over what James Mitchell, professor of public policy at the University of Edinburgh, called centralisation to "far greater levels than witnessed in the Thatcher years"? >James Mitchell, professor of public policy at the University of Edinburgh, is currently writing a book on local democracy. He claimed the SNP has taken centralisation to “far greater levels than witnessed in the Thatcher years” – describing this as a “damning indictment” of the SNP’s record. Mitchell told The Ferret: “There is more expertise in local government and our communities than exists in the Scottish central government but much of Scottish Government operates from a top-down, uniformist starting point rather than work in partnership”. Or are you afraid to rock the boat?
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>I imagine indy is going to happen quite soon; during that process the entire framework of govt will obviosuly change.

Local government is a devolved competence. Why not start now? You're an SNP councillor.

Why not propose motions at conference to have the SNP implement in full the recommendations of the 2014 COSLA report or the SGP/Wightman "Renewing Scotland's Local Democracy" report?

Why not ask the leadership to explain why the Local Governance Review, promised in the 2016 and 2022 SNP manifestos, is proceeding at a pace which makes glaciers look like F1 cars, and will almost certainly now see its recommendations only be implemented in the next Parliament?

Why not hold the SNP Holyrood leadership accountable for presiding over what James Mitchell, professor of public policy at the University of Edinburgh, called centralisation to "far greater levels than witnessed in the Thatcher years"?

>James Mitchell, professor of public policy at the University of Edinburgh, is currently writing a book on local democracy. He claimed the SNP has taken centralisation to “far greater levels than witnessed in the Thatcher years” – describing this as a “damning indictment” of the SNP’s record. Mitchell told The Ferret: “There is more expertise in local government and our communities than exists in the Scottish central government but much of Scottish Government operates from a top-down, uniformist starting point rather than work in partnership”.

Or are you afraid to rock the boat?