Reforms laid out for the shelf?

Gordon Brown today has announced a number of constitutional reforms. However he has said his proposals are not a final blue print but a route map.

A route map to where? Well Brown will want to gain as much political capital out of them as possible. These reforms are designed to show Brown isn’t a centralist but willing to give power back, then there will be reviews so we can be told about it all again and finally it will be shelved, never to be heard about again.