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    #81
    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    I think you will find the attitude is that MP's in devolved areas shouldn't vote on things that don't affect them, seems reasonable to me. Something your MPs have singularly failed to address despite the West Lothian question being asked in 1977, you would have thought after years of being ruled by foreign politicians they would want to fix it quick.

    You are the ones who decided to stay in the union, we weren't asked. If we had been you would probably be feeling the door hit you in the arse on the way out. Many people are fed up subsidising you and then listening to you moaning.
    I think that is aimed at the Labour MPs who have voted to support whatever the whip tells them to in Westminster, including Tam Dalyell who raised the question named after his constituancy as he was MP for West Lothian at the time. The SNP have never voted on English matters as a point of principle, just as they have refused to take a seat in the Lords or accept any of the trinkets Her Maj passes out.

    As has been pointed out many times, we are not subsidised. We contribute more than we take out.

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      #82
      Originally posted by Batcher View Post
      As has been pointed out many times, we are not subsidised. We contribute more than we take out.
      As has more accurately been pointed out, Scotland takes out £1200 per head and contributes £800 per head.

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        #83
        400 more per head. That will drop to -700 next year. So nearly 2000 grand per person down.

        It is frightening that their no realisation of this.

        The SNPs standard response now is to say "if we had more powers".

        I watched FMQs on Wednesday, Sturgeon was embarrassingly bad, she has this massive folder and reads direct from it, looks up at the end of every sentence. If you are bored check it out in iplayer.

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          #84
          Originally posted by minestrone View Post
          400 more per head. That will drop to -700 next year. So nearly 2000 grand per person down.

          It is frightening that their no realisation of this.

          The SNPs standard response now is to say "if we had more powers".

          I watched FMQs on Wednesday, Sturgeon was embarrassingly bad, she has this massive folder and reads direct from it, looks up at the end of every sentence. If you are bored check it out in iplayer.
          Pure rubbish as usual for the anti-Scottish whiner.

          If she was looking at a folder it's because she is getting asked questions that she needs to make sure she is giving accurate answers. She wipes the floor with The Dug every week.

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            #85
            I have to agree on the point that I have no problem with people reading facts rather than showing they remember everything - being in touch with your responsibilities doesn't mean having a photographic memory.

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              #86
              But still, Scotland is not a net contributor to the UK, so you can stop spinning that line

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                #87
                Originally posted by Batcher View Post
                Pure rubbish as usual for the anti-Scottish whiner.

                If she was looking at a folder it's because she is getting asked questions that she needs to make sure she is giving accurate answers. She wipes the floor with The Dug every week.
                I have met Sturgeon on numerous occasions, in fact the whole family know her quite well and she has been round my folk's house for dinner on occasion, as a person she is likeable so I am not one to slag her off without reason.

                She can't debate.

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                  #88
                  Originally posted by Ticktock View Post
                  But still, Scotland is not a net contributor to the UK, so you can stop spinning that line
                  Mind you the UK is not a net contributor to the UK, we are just a bit worse than the average.

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                    #89
                    Originally posted by Ticktock View Post
                    As has more accurately been pointed out, Scotland takes out £1200 per head and contributes £800 per head.
                    But in socialist logic that is contributing
                    Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

                    No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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                      #90
                      Well, this is what happens when you vote in an absolute piece of filth...

                      SNP MP Mhairi Black admits using Westminster salary for

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