Talking the talk...

Economic Development Committee today went through with little contention though the decision by the Administration not to go straight for a fully fledged Edinburgh Bureau seems unnecessarily pusillanimous in the face of internal officer resistance - but clearly it is also linked to an unwillingness to commit the cash that is needed. This may yet prove to be another case of talking the talk but not walking the walk...otherwise the meeting was significantly unscarred by some of the bitterness that has characterised inter-party exchanges recently.