The communiqué says that the Supreme People's Court, the country's highest court, will also set up "circuit courts" around the country—another step toward centralising judicial power.The trend toward centralisation may help explain the prominent mention of "rule by constitution" in the communiqué.
It is as much a challenge to the left, and our commitment to the state and centralisation, as it is to the right with its unquestioning embrace of the market.
Nationalists were pro-EU but opposed to the single currency, common fisheries policy and increased centralisation; economically it talked orthodox left but intended to act conventionally right, pledging to cut corporation tax, and keep personal taxation low.
Ever greater fragmentation and atomisation, more schools with unqualified teachers and no local oversight, the centralisation of power in an unwieldy Department for Education can only exacerbate the risk of further problems.
Local government got wrapped up in Thatcher's battle against "enemies within", he says, then Labour under Blair went for "a really top-down, target-based approach, which led to another great wave of centralisation".
What they want is power – and to push back against decades of centralisation to give British cities a level of autonomy more in line with the rest of Europe and the US.
Excessive centralisation, where we are dependent on Westminster for funding which usually comes with one-size-fits-all conditions attached, is hampering our performance.
He ended with a bold pledge that we will have to keep reminding him of it, if he gets the keys to number 10: "We are going to reverse the centralisation that we see in this country.
He pulled Labour back to the old model of clipboards and cold-calling, centralisation and commands from on high.
Since coming into office, he has said the NHS must end mass centralisation and instead expand its local services to treat people in their own communities; he has revealed deep scepticism about the effectiveness of integration schemes being planned as part of the Better Care Fund; and has criticised the lack of diversity in management.
Merkel called for a major centralisation in Brussels of sovereign national powers in fiscal, budgetary, and economic policies, arguing that action already taken during three years of the euro crisis had only left the job half-done.
