Scottish Government seeks to make many emergency coronavirus powers permanent

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14 points·mrfusion··8 comments

If we're honest with ourselves then we'd have to admit this was going to happen. After all, no government voluntarily downsizes itself,so it follows that they wouldn't let go of powers they gave themselves to deal with it.

Nothing more permanent than a temporary increase in government power

They can’t even wait for the pandemic to be declared a permanent state..

Just incase HN isn't aware, GB news is basically Fox news of the UK, or the daily mail on television. I would be very sceptical of anything they say.

True enough, here's the BBC's slant on the same story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-582...

Currently the only channel that is capable of inviting 2 people with completely opposing opinions, and make a nice debate. On any current news: gender, environment, politics, covid, etc... Not like all others channel giving, and insisting, on a one sided opinion, and debaters just agreeing with each other

It is actually refreshing

I think this is a bit unfair. I actually enjoy watching GB news. They touch subjects mainstream channels won’t and the debates are usually quite balanced. Furthermore, all of the presenters are transparent about which way they lean politically.

So as expected from this news source the headline and spin is misleading. The source for the article is a consultation ( https://www.gov.scot/news/covid-recovery-consultation/ ) on the transition out of current covid measures the "retained powers" are also not exactly novel and simply bring Scotland into line with the other parts of the UK

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