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Understanding devolution in Wales
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This is a poster headlined ‘Why you should VOTE NO’ in large green letters. Underneath is a list of 10 reasons, with an exclamation written beside each line as follows. Lines 1-2: ‘Your Country!’ 3-9: ‘Your Money!’ 10: ‘Your Interests!’ The list itself reads as follows: 1: By voting 'NO' you will be stopping the start of the slide down the slippery slope to the break-up of the United Kingdom. 2: Full independence is Plaid Cymru's main aim. 3: At present Government expenditure is over £167 per head higher in Wales than in England – do you want to lose this advantage. 4: The Assembly would cost £6.5 million to set up. 5: The Assembly would cost £12.5 million, and possibly more, to run. 6: The Assemblymen would be able to fix their own salaries, pensions and gratuities. 7: The Assemblymen would be able to appoint as many officers as they like. 8: The Assemblymen would need at least another 1,150 Civil Servants. 9: The Assembly would mean yet another tier of Government – more money. 10: Welsh M.P.s will no longer have the power to decide on matters of education, housing and health. Underneath is the text: ‘Keep Britain united by voting 'NO' on Thursday 1st March.’
Figure 2 ‘Why you should vote no’

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