There are many
things for which Baron Kinnock is well-known.
Support for devolution, of anything, to Wales is not prominent amongst
them. So it was hardly a surprise that
he spoke against devolution of income tax powers to Wales without a
referendum. But it was the arguments he
used which struck me.
On the one hand,
he claimed that this would "very
profoundly change the way in which Wales is governed", whilst on the
other, he said that the additional power was being offered in the "certain and cynical knowledge"
that it would not be exercised. Whilst I
tend to agree with him on the second point, am I the only one left wondering
how a power which will never be exercised can make a profound difference to the
way Wales is governed?
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