Kevin Hollinrake recently called for funding to dual the A64 and also for Yorkshire devolution.

On the A64 he is spot on. This needs doing and soon, but as always the trouble is money. What I don’t understand is how devolution is going to create that money. All devolution will do is add another tier of government.

This would mean parties would have to scrape the barrel even deeper than they did when they found the current poor quality candidates in order to fill the political roles on offer - so local government would be run even worse.

Then a small army of civil servants, who will be the ones really running the devolved Yorkshire show, would need to be bankrolled.

Council leaders naturally want this extra rung on the ladder of petty political careers to climb onto, but what do you the public think?

We should abandon the whole idea, spend the money on what we really need and keep the number of ineffective politicians to an absolute minimum.

More government means more net cost in administration and another group to blame leaving the electorate even more confused about who to blame.

Anyone for a legally binding referendum to reject this?

Dr Scott Marmion, Woodthorpe, York