Darling, Darling, Darling, versus the Salmond

[TestMangler]

You do understand what average means don't you?

Erm, yes. That's the point. Eeek was quoting a variation on average against figures for Scotland.

Thought all you papes were voting 'Yes' anyway. Quite happy to bomb shopping centres in Ireland and London for 'freedom' but won't put a cross in a ballot paper for your own country??

[eek]

Erm, yes. That's the point. Eeek was quoting a variation on average against figures for Scotland.

Thought all you papes were voting 'Yes' anyway. Quite happy to bomb shopping centres in Ireland and London for 'freedom' but won't put a cross in a ballot paper for your own country??

Nope just quoting the top level figures given to MPs as provided by Parliament. yep its all averages but its a simple summary given that any other dataset would be a lot larger and so beyond your average MPs mathematical skills.

[Batcher]

If only that was the case from http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/sn04033.pdf
So the average Scot gets £1623 per head more than the average English voter.

If we had that money I'm sure we could have free further education and free personal care. As we don't have that addition £1623 we have to pay for it ourselves...

Scotland puts in more to the treasury than it gets out. We hand over our pay packet and get pocket money back. Surely you can't complain when we spend that money more wisely than Westminster?

[eek]

Scotland puts in more to the treasury than it gets out. We hand over our pay packet and get pocket money back. Surely you can't complain when we spend that money more wisely than Westminster?

Isn't that dependent on oil and gas revenue?

[DiscoStu]

Scotland puts in more to the treasury than it gets out. We hand over our pay packet and get pocket money back. Surely you can't complain when we spend that money more wisely than Westminster?

Source?

[Batcher]

Isn't that dependent on oil and gas revenue?

Some of it, 15% I think was mentioned last night in the debate. We also have tax on tourism, whisky, corporation tax, PAYE, NI, Fuel Tax, etc all going in.

Also, VAT all goes to the treasury but Scotland gets 0% of that back.

[Platypus]

The financial inequality in Scotland is the same as it is throughout the UK.

Ah, I think I mis-understood what you were saying. You said:

The UK is one of the richest nations on the face of the planet. So why is our country so unequal, socially and financially?

Which I took to mean "why is everything worse in Scotland than in England?". But now I think you didn't mean that at all. You meant "why is the UK so tulipe?".

[eek]

Some of it, 15% I think was mentioned last night in the debate. We also have tax on tourism, whisky, corporation tax, PAYE, NI, Fuel Tax, etc all going in.

Also, VAT all goes to the treasury but Scotland gets 0% of that back.

I think you misunderstood my point totally.

If oil and gas revenue is attributed to Scotland the tax revenue per head is above the UK average.

If we don't attribute oil and gas revenue to Scotland the tax revenue per head is below the UK average...

[TestMangler]

I think you misunderstood my point totally.

If oil and gas revenue is attributed to Scotland the tax revenue per head is above the UK average.

If we don't attribute oil and gas revenue to Scotland the tax revenue per head is below the UK average...

So why would you not attribute revenue to the country that generates it ?

[scooterscot]

You meant "why is the UK so tulipe?".

Probably would not have used those words. What I see is government courting big business instead of serving the voter. Instead we have politicians serving themselves. It was not meant to be this way. If you look beyond that it's high train fares, high taxes, over-crowded cities, offshoring of skills, manufacturing, and our utilities. Something has to change and there's an opportunity next month for one small part of the Kingdom to do exactly that.