An important meeting of the Isle of Wight Council has been scheduled for Wednesday 1st October, to discuss the next steps in the Labour Government’s devolution plans.
This extraordinary meeting of Full Council will begin at 19:00 and has been arranged to meet a deadline set by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
The session will focus solely on the topic of devolution and the priority programme awarded to the Isle of Wight earlier this year.
The meeting will take place at County Hall in Newport, and residents are welcome to attend in person or watch online via the council’s website.
For more information about devolution and what it could mean for the Isle of Wight, visit the council’s devolution webpage.
Devolution might be able to address the issues
IW Council are not capable of addressing.
Speeding
Parking on Pavements
Parking on Double Yellow Lines
Having to pay a nightly charge of £2 to park along seafronts
Having to pay 50p in some towns to use public toilets
Unreliable and expensive ferry fares
Etc etc!
I for one am up for devolution, a change is needed.
How will devolution help any of these issues?
People assume that this so called devolution will be a magic pill for all the islands ills, there will be no pot of money for the isle of wight council to waste, being an add on to a mainland council effectively means they will make all the right noises but keep the n=biggest slice of the cake..
People have unrealistic expectations for this so called devolution, there is no magic money tree coming our way, this is just labour’s way of saying, we are the party of the people and all your bills will go up as a consequence.
Labour only have another 3 years and so many
months in office, after their disastrous start
I doubt they will ever gain power again.
The removal of the winter fuel allowance last year was
the nail in Labour’s coffin.
They could save Billions of pounds by reducing the
excess civil servants.
They have over 516,000 civil servants which is approx
150,000 more than when David Cameron reduced the numbers.
Many of them don’t have a lot to do and from what I heard
on the radio and are still working from home.
If you think that changes to winter fuel payments is the only thing Labour has done, then you’re obviously only a headline reader who doesn’t bother with actually looking any deeper at the changes going on in a multitude of areas. https://whathaskeirdone.co.uk/results
The whole point about devolution is decentralisation, so that money is devolved from central government for more targeted funding of local services. It works well in other areas.
Your myopic view on the wonders of labour is at odds with reality, wales, effectively bankcrupt but received billions more since labour came to power, scotland, cannot account for monies the size of the welsh budget, but labour are doung such a great job,