It is perhaps bizarre that in the middle of Spalding down the road from the house I was raised in, in Stonegate was a house that relied entirely on gas for it had no electricity until the 21st century. In it lived Edna Basam and her elderly mother when I was young and they had gas lamps on the walls for lighting. I remember asking them what they were as I hadn’t seen gaslight before and Edna lit one to show me.# The electricity grid to supply the whole country with electric
Devolution of powers assumes local people know what is best for local people. Here I question this reasoning and consider whether it is in fact a severe threat to rural life.
