I'm not sure I can follow the logic of this. It starts with a fairly commonplace swipe at anyone who happens to not be on the political right - how dare that nasty Labour government have given some folk in parts of the UK some devolved powers.
But then it goes on to rail against attempts to restrict power being devolved to local people - the right for people to utter prayers before a council meeting (does it really matter? I don't get why a conservative is so het up about something as trivial as this - shouldn't ministers' time be better spent elsewhere?).
I don't quite get it - if Labour devolves power it's an unmitigated bad thing, throwing away centuries of history (because history is all that matters when making decisions), yet if the Conservatives do it, it's localism, it's getting the government out of the way, it's an unmitigated good thing.
Does he want powers to be devolved, or not? Or does it just matter what party it is that's doing it?
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