Kind of reminds me of the voiceovers you used to get watching tv in Scotland "except for viewers in Scotland that have to put up with this p**h".

In other words - it's only for the English or rather, for courses in England.

Peasie wrote:

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Kind of reminds me of the voiceovers you used to get watching tv in Scotland "except for viewers in Scotland that have to put up with this p**h".

In other words - it's only for the English or rather, for courses in England.

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But you've had Government funding for ages and we've had sod all this side of the border. (Same with Wales).

It seems that for years England has been treated as the cashcow for all of the other parts of the UK but receieved absolutely nothing ourselves.

Right, thats further education sorted. Free healthcare for the elderly next. And subsidised universities, And free prescriptions...

Get those things and we don't all need to retire north of the border anymore. lol

 

p.s. before we end up with York being burnt and pillaged by rampaging Scottish armies again just to emphasise that the above was written tongue in cheek.

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Peasie wrote:

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Kind of reminds me of the voiceovers you used to get watching tv in Scotland "except for viewers in Scotland that have to put up with this p**h".

In other words - it's only for the English or rather, for courses in England.

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 Isn't university free in Scotland?

But the issue is Kris if Scotland votes for independance will such prove to be a white Elephant.

I'm, not disagreeing with anything that you've said (not a big fan of our current administration myself but at least they're better than the last bunch!) but I cannot help but think that the finances have not been thought through properly.

For instance, Scotland will need to maintain its own army rather than it being financed through Westminster. That said, one would need less of an army if we didn't keep going off fighting in wars that were none of our business.

I remember a radio 4 program (also saw it later in the newspaper) where Scotland was complaining about the amount of money going South to Westminster. But the counter was that for every 1p that goes South, 6p goes North.

Without that 5p difference would the sums still stack up for the amount of free stuff available in Scotland.

Would all of the free stuff fall victim to independance?

Then again, as a seperate country Scotland would be entitled to EU assistance / loans.

And there's another problem. What does Westminster do if we end up with another Greece / Iceland next door?

How severed will the ties ever be really and if they are not severed then what is the point in independance.

On a positive note for England of course independance would mean that we do not get any more primeministers or chancellors like Gordon Brown... Swings and roundabout as they say.

Personally I would be looking very closely at where Holyrood expects to finance the increased expenditure from before casting my vote as I think that there may be an element of wishful thinking in the facts and figures that have been presented thus far.

Some of the above thoughts aside, the totally seperate open border neighbours arrangement works well for the USA / Canada so to my mind with a lot of work and a bit of luck it could work here using the same model.

Interesting times as they say.

Shaun.

But of course, things are never so simple.

There is no denying that 8.5% of the UKs population is in Scotland (84.5% in England, 4.9% in Wales, 2.9% Ireland (all figures rounded up)).

If you looked at that another way you could say that the entire population of Scotland is 64.8% of the population of London.... Statistics are a great thing aren't they.

Whilst public spending would not be reduced by devolution I would not be so confident upon maintaining the tax take north of the border.

A lot of Scottish businesses have been purchased by English companies (Scottish Widows, Banks of Scotland, etc. (#1)). To remain in Scotland businesses would be asking whats in it for them which would pretty much force Holyrood to reduce the Scottish corporation tax bands making it economically beneficial to leave operations in Scotland rather than transferring back to London but in doing so such would reduce the Scottish tax take.

That said, reduced tax would see others moving to Scotland possibly forcing Westminster to match Scottish tax rates so maintaining a single (not so) UK level of tax resulting in a cross border tax setting regime reestablishing a link in the tax systems of Westminster and Holyrood.

What I'm trying to say is that tax now and tax post devolution are unlikely to be comparable.

Also 8.5% of the population using 9.3% of public spending means that every man, woman and child in Scotland uses an average of £12,205 of expenditure compared to £10,889 for everyone else in the UK.

For all the figures that we can bandy too and fro at the end of the day what really matters is not what makes financial sense but rather the ability to govern ones own affairs.

I'm sure that Scotlands as fed up of meddling from Westminster as Westminster is of having Scottish Governments in Power over England.

Maybe on a small scale this is showing the world what will eventually happen to the EU as there is just too much history between the member states for it ever to last so seeing how the UK is fragmenting should perhaps be a lesson to those seeking to create a single European state.

We seem very much to be doing in Europe the same as new managers coming into a business. Centralise - decentralise - centralise - and keep repeating with every change of manager.

Anyway, I'll be interested to see the new breakdown on national statistics as apparently such were supposed to be released in July but still nothing so far.... Wonder what it is that they don't want to tell us this time!



#1 Natwest went the other way but as RBS is now pretty much owned by Westminster that one's a bit of a mute point.

p.s. I'm not anti devolution and I'm not indicating superiority of one side over the other. I'm simply playing with your statistics.... We'll do HS2 next, lol.