tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27941559.post7632813195726982769..comments2024-03-13T18:03:14.612+01:00Comments on South Of Watford: The Last One Out Of Madrid Won't Need To Turn The Lights OffGraemehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948656158638818739noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27941559.post-89071286091044454032010-11-07T10:44:25.032+01:002010-11-07T10:44:25.032+01:00Well the PP is really only centralist in the sense...Well the PP is really only centralist in the sense that they oppose autonomy that threatens their political concept of the Spanish state. I don't see Aguirre or Camps volunteering to give up any of their local power.Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948656158638818739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27941559.post-63357767982793096822010-11-05T17:25:30.229+01:002010-11-05T17:25:30.229+01:00Strange that for all their GOP-philia and talk of ...Strange that for all their GOP-philia and talk of economic decentralising, the PP can't fathom that there is virtually no example of any polity anywhere which managed to reduce its layers of bureaucracy and red tape by reducing local autonomies and increasing centralisation....especially when the central capital in question is an artificial capital; whatever its economic and cultural successes, Madrid was essentially a 16th century version of Brasilia or Bonn... administration was its economic life.Roberticusnoreply@blogger.com