Flaw in plan to give councils more clout ; Reading David Cameron's speech to the Open University on his proposals for constitutional change, the part about a major shift in power from Whitehall down to local authorities is disturbing if you live in Cornwall.

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Publication: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)

Date: 2009-05-29 00:00:00

Reading David Cameron's speech to the Open University on his proposals for constitutional change, the part about a major shift in power from Whitehall down to local authorities is disturbing if you live in Cornwall.

For all our sakes, let us not throw the baby out with the bath water, as can so easily happen and so frequently has.

The Lib-Dems have been in charge here, and they couldn't organise a booze-up in a brewery. We've had fire engines without turntable ladders, an airport without a licence, an abandoned waste incinerator project leaving ...

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