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 Post subject: Re: Corbyn as PM??
PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2017 2:39 pm 
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Please explain how you can be in debt if you are not allowed to borrow and you have balanced your budget every year. As both the Scottish Govt and Westminster have admitted most of the figures in Gers are based on estimates as no separate figures are kept.


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 Post subject: Re: Corbyn as PM??
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How can Scotland have a debt when it is not allowed to borrow? This is another Westminster myth like the one that they subsidise Scotland.


No myth.
Westminster (the elected UK Govt) pays a per capita subsidy to Scotland every year.
They have devolved powers which means they can spend most of this as they wish. So for example they have no University fees for Scottish students studying at Scottish Universities.
That per capita subsidy is much larger than the average per capita cost in England.
If they ever got Independence they would go bust.
No surprise, then, that the canny Scots did not vote for Independence, and are not likely to.
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 Post subject: Re: Corbyn as PM??
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It is not a subsidy but a return of some of the revenues raised in Scotland.


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 Post subject: Re: Corbyn as PM??
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zorbathejock wrote:
It is not a subsidy but a return of some of the revenues raised in Scotland.

Plus extra funds to help Scotland fill the depleted income from oil, farming, fishing and it's lack of industries. ;)


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 Post subject: Re: Corbyn as PM??
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No extra funds. The money allocated to Scotland is less than the amounts raised. Don't forget that Westminster benefits from the taxes on Scottish products,e.g. Whisky.


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 Post subject: Re: Corbyn as PM??
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zorbathejock wrote:
No extra funds. The money allocated to Scotland is less than the amounts raised. Don't forget that Westminster benefits from the taxes on Scottish products,e.g. Whisky.

What else, other than bottles of whisky (compared to the industries in other parts of the UK) ?


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 Post subject: Re: Corbyn as PM??
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No extra funds. The money allocated to Scotland is less than the amounts raised. Don't forget that Westminster benefits from the taxes on Scottish products,e.g. Whisky.

I can only presume that from your posts that you are a beneficiary of the effects of whisky?

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 Post subject: Re: Corbyn as PM??
PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 7:43 am 
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Ahhh, so, you made it up.

Did you also make up the "well documented facts" that you refer to?

Apology accepted.


It would seem that your comment indicates clearly that you & all forms of the media are strangers.

For once though artlin you are right, though only to a point!

Yes, I do have a tendency to form my own opinion upon the facts provided, you, however, seem to prefer another approach.

My 'apology' was tongue-in-cheek for your patent lack of comprehension.
It's one thing to read the words, quite another to understand their context.

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