So it is up to local leaders to take advantage of new powers devolved their way.
"This creates a lot of new powers in the hands of some people," he continued.
This abdication of responsibility has been even more remarkable than the president's assumption of new powers.
The imminent transfer of new powers (particularly tax-raising ones) to Holyrood will only accentuate that trend.
However fast the economies of new powers are growing, then, forecasts of their world domination leave out a great deal.
In the battle of new powers and old, the new represented by India is also coming out on top.
Nonetheless, the new agency, besides absorbing two major regulatory bodies, has gained a number of new powers.
Each of the three main unionist parties is drawing up a package of new powers for Edinburgh.
But his appropriation of new powers appears to have spectacularly backfired, exacerbating already deepening faultlines in Egyptian society.
He emerges scarred, though possessed of new powers of invincibility and primed to take revenge on his enemies.
Andrew Tyrie MP, the committee chairman, said: "The Bank of England has taken on a wide range of new powers.
