Talk:1997 Welsh devolution referendum

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The percentages given for Flintshire add up to 101%. Can some correct this? ZanderSchubert (talk) 10:32, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Electoral Commission (?) report & weakness in the east[edit]

I have a memory that about a year later the Electoral Commission or a similar body produced a report on the devolution referendum that was deeply critical of the government of a number of areas, arguing it had taken a one-sided approach with a leading question and funding support. It got a bit of attention at the time and should really be included here as one of the more authorative reviews of the outcome.

Also I noticed this text commented out which I've removed completely:

There was also the problem of a relatively small Welsh media. Therefore the closer you went to the English border where English media dominated the larger the no vote.

The wording feels rather POV on a True Welshman line. There are many reasons why the east has generally been more anti-devolution than the west and it's not just down to the media. A key poblem that devolutionists often can't easily answer is what happens when there's a large population along a border and many cross it for both work and services. Often devolution can raise the prospect of services for such populations being moved away from them, either politically because they lose influence over them, or geographically if there will be a drive towards all-internal service provision. Timrollpickering (talk) 16:44, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]