In the interview, @BBCDouglasF described the Shared Prosperity Fund (the replacement for EU Structural Funds) as the next "constitutional stooshie" because it appears that the Scottish Government will be cut out of any role in managing this fund. https://twitter.com/BBCWeekendGMS/status/1332574881578422272
@scotgov previously managed the Structural Funds on behalf of the EU. This accorded with the EU "subsidiarity principle" whereby decisions are taken as close as possible to the citizen and that action should not be taken at a higher level
unless it can be shown to be more effective than local action. @scotgov has done a lot of work in thinking through how the Shared Prosperity Fund might be used to support local economic actors and communities across Scotland (as has the @WelshGovernment for Wales)
There is no evidence of UK government gathering similar intelligence. So how can it show that it can allocate the #SharedProsperityFund more effectively than the devolved Parliaments? If it cannot, why take this power from the devolved parliaments? Hence the upcoming "stooshie".
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