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Bill: Decentralization and Democracy Act

Details

Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party of Hobrazia

Status[?]: defeated

Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.

Voting deadline: August 2583

Description[?]:

The following four national responsibilities are the most immediate examples of oppressive and bureaucratic centralization. It is time to return these responsibilities to the counties.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date00:24:30, May 27, 2008 CET
FromPeople's Liberation Front of Hobrazia
ToDebating the Decentralization and Democracy Act
MessageNo to devolution.

Date09:05:19, May 27, 2008 CET
FromWe Say So! Party
ToDebating the Decentralization and Democracy Act
MessageHow would any of those issues be improvements to the current situation?
Localisation is complicated, bureaucratic, and unstructured and costs more to operate than centrally funded systems whilst providing no improvements in service but actually risking those services whilst local governments clamour to reduce overheads.
We would also point out that we cannot "return" these responsibilities to local government because they have never had these responsibilities.

Date00:41:28, May 28, 2008 CET
FromLiberal Party of Hobrazia
ToDebating the Decentralization and Democracy Act
MessageIt's less bureaucratic because the responsibilities, properly devolved, would be truly accountable to local governments and their needs.

Date04:28:24, May 28, 2008 CET
FromConservative Nationalist Party
ToDebating the Decentralization and Democracy Act
MessageWe agree entirely with the sentiments expressed by the LPoH.

Date09:08:14, May 28, 2008 CET
FromWe Say So! Party
ToDebating the Decentralization and Democracy Act
MessageWhat a load of absolute tosh.
Bureaucratic responsibilities within devolved institutions are inherently more expensive. Rather than an individual operating a combined organisation you now require multiple at each local constituency (or County dependent upon how local the operations are, something not explained in this bill). When one part of the same organisation needs to contact each other, they are now operated separately so they now operate differing bureaucracies. Each level is no more accountable than the current organisational set up but is now more expensive to operate due to additional staffing requirements to operate the many bureaucracies rather than the singular in addition to the decreased cohesiveness of operations which is especially critical in regards emergency services.
All this bill does is increase cost whilst decreasing responsibility.

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Voting

Vote Seats
yes
  

Total Seats: 144

no
    

Total Seats: 256

abstain

    Total Seats: 0


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