the sooner the better we can stop paying for you
Comments like that are straight out of the English Tory Party Propoganda Machine, so I thought I'd set the record straight and tell you the FACTS:
So guess where Government spending is highest. That’s right,
London.
Official Treasury figures, the same ones which show that Scots are “subsidised” to the tune of £10,212 every year also show Government spending in London is £10,256 per head.
But they have to pay £9,000 a year to send their kids to university, £8 for a prescription and they have to pay through the nose if their granny needs extra care in her old age.
The reason for that is plain and simple.
Scotland voted for a Government which believes in free education and free health care — but England voted for one which DOESN’T.
Every year Scotland gets a set block of cash to spend as it likes. If people in England want free prescriptions and free university education, all they have to do is vote for a Government which wants those things too.
This year’s figures showed that with 8.4 per cent of the UK population, Scotland contributed 9.4 per cent of UK taxes or the equivalent of a £1,000 overpayment from everybody in the country.
We got back only 9.3 per cent of spending — and that’s before North Sea revenues double this year to a colossal £13.4 BILLION.
So the question is not why Scotland gets so much but why, say, Devon & Cornwall, with annual spending of £8,020, deserves a full 20 per cent less than London.
And those figures are from your own UK treasury, so in effect we are subsidising you in London, not the other way round.
Imagine the outcry on this forum from the administrators (and it happened before and a thread was removed) if you said that you were subsidising the Asian community, racist eh? Maybe but there is no difference in saying that about the Scottish people.
Get your facts right before you spout such bilge in our direction.