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[tavyred]

This is unicorn stuff. Whole idea of taxation is supposedly to level up. London doesn't spend all the tax revenue it earns, Cornwall will be a net recipient. Within London, Chelsea and Westminster residents will be net contributors, Dagenham probably net recipients etc.

I have no issue with Scotland as a whole being net recipient of funds......

I do.
The extra funds Scotland receives is not based on need, it’s based on geography.
There is no good reason for the residents of Morningside to given £2K per person more than a resident of Swilly in Plimuff.

 

[lamrobhero]

After reading lamrobhero's posts on England, Scotland and the Union, I'm not sure if he's a WUM or Ian Blackford.

Just pointing out what seems to me to be a contradiction. On the one hand people want to argue that Scotland being in the Union is great. Then on the other hand bemoaning the fact that the Scottish economy does not produce enough to support itself which suggests that being in the Union is not great.

 

[tavyred]

Just pointing out what seems to me to be a contradiction. On the one hand people want to argue that Scotland being in the Union is great. Then on the other hand bemoaning the fact that the Scottish economy does not produce enough to support itself which suggests that being in the Union is not great.

The issue with Scotland is that it gets more than its fair share.

 

[Alistair20000]

The issue with Scotland is that it gets more than its fair share.

And in addition despite the largesse they moan, groan and whinge incessantly.

 

[dontpassback]

Lock em all up and throw away they keys,their combined incompetence is staggering

 

[fred binneys head]

The issue with Scotland is that it gets more than its fair share.

That’s disputable. There have been studies that suggest the opposite. Largely depends how you allocate the debt interest. That’s probably why they “moan, groan and whinge”.

 

[tavyred]

Nothing disputable about U.K. citizens resident in Scotland receiving circa £2K per head in extra funding.

 

[Stuffy]

I read somewhere that Germany broke that ruling more than any other nation.

Back in Sept 6th (post 16,196) I mentioned that Brussels could easily become as meaningless as Hitler's Reichstag and two weeks later Yanis Varoufakis comes out with this..

Varoufakis destroys EU state aid claim in UK Brexit talks

YANIS VAROUFAKIS has hit out at "Barnier and the bureaucracy in Brussels" for trying to impose state aid rules on the UK that even Germany and France refuse to follow.

www.express.co.uk

 

[IndoMike]

Laughable the obsession with Scotland.
If our dang of RWs dislike Scotkand so.much why not just let them.go free.?
Why so concerned about it?

 

[DB9]

Back in Sept 6th (post 16,196) I mentioned that Brussels could easily become as meaningless as Hitler's Reichstag and two weeks later Yanis Varoufakis comes out with this..

Varoufakis destroys EU state aid claim in UK Brexit talks

YANIS VAROUFAKIS has hit out at "Barnier and the bureaucracy in Brussels" for trying to impose state aid rules on the UK that even Germany and France refuse to follow.

www.express.co.uk

Blimey Stuffers, agreeing with a very left wing politician who recently founded "Progressive International" with Bernie Saunders and also is a great admirer of Jeremy Corbyn.

"In November 2019, along with other public figures, Varoufakis signed a letter supporting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn describing him as "a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia and racism in much of the democratic world" and endorsed him in the 2019 UK general election.[60] In December 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural figures, he signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party under Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election. The letter stated that "Labour's election manifesto under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership offers a transformative plan that prioritises the needs of people and the planet over private profit and the vested interests of a few"

Also if i remember correctly he was totally against Greece paying back their bail out by the EU when he was Greece PM citing "WW2 Reperations" Not one of your usual bedfellows there my old friend and the Daily Express either, Seems like if anyone says anything against the EU, They put it up as truth.