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# Another Calman meeting cancelled
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/another-calman-meeting-cancelled/
- Published: 2008-09-17T10:09:12.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:41:40.000Z
- Author: Tom Griffin
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:49

**Tom Griffin (London,** [**OK**](https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom)**):** It looks like the [Calman Commission](http://www.commissiononscottishdevolution.org.uk/?ref=opendemocracy.net) may not be coming to England any time soon. According to an email from the Commission's Secretariat, a planned meeting in Berwick-upon-Tweed has been postponed.

it's not a first time that the body, established by a Labour/Liberal Democrat/Conservative alliance in the Scottish Parliament to consider the case for further devolution, has had this problem. Its first event in Scotland, an invitation-only public meeting planned for Stirling last month, was [cancelled due to lack of interest](http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Devolution-event--axed-.4442415.jp?ref=opendemocracy.net).

A [certain amount](https://www.opendemocracy.net/) of [anecdotal evidence](http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/letters/display.var.2445212.0.Calmans%5Fvery%5Fselect%5Fcommittee.php?ref=opendemocracy.net) has emerged in recent weeks to support [initial fears](https://www.opendemocracy.net/) that the Commission would be '[neither open not inclusive'](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article4188569.ece?ref=opendemocracy.net).

At this rate, Calman will struggle to provide a credible alternative to the SNP's [National Conversation](http://www.scotland.gov.uk/topics/a-national-conversation?ref=opendemocracy.net). And yet the fact remains it is only the parties represented on the Commission who have the votes at Westminster to deliver further devolution.