58% and rising

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Originally Posted by BCram

I think council tax provides a very small amount of money for local authorities. Not sure what the percentage is but I think it is less than 20%. Nobody pays anything like the amount needed to provide all our local services.

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Wasn't quite what I meant but I agree.

Very difficult to apply local sales taxes where there are significant variations in the retail provision. Do you collect it all together centrally and reallocate it on a per capita basis? If you keep the tax in the local authority area where it was collected what do you do about those local authorities who have low populations and as a result small retail outlets.Argyll and Bute springs to mind.

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Originally Posted by Deeranged

Support for independence.

Looks like my 60% comment the other day wasn't as wide of the mark as some might have thought.

Time for indy ref 2 approaching, cannae wait.

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Except it wasn’t 58% at all, it was a curious reporting of the poll.

It was 58% of those who said yes or no, the don’t knows were discarded and no numbers given for what they were. In each referendum they will be crucial.

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Originally Posted by grantzer

If we have a share of the national debt,we would surely get a share of everything else,pension fund included?

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Which pension fund is this?

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Originally Posted by hmac

Except it wasn’t 58% at all, it was a curious reporting of the poll.

It was 58% of those who said yes or no, the don’t knows were discarded and no numbers given for what they were. In each referendum they will be crucial.

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Released when nikla was in trouble over Salmond revelations.

It wouldn’t be to divert the focus away from her....would it?

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Originally Posted by noahrab

Which pension fund is this?

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Whatever fund is paying pensions now. If you are gonna tell me there is no pension fund,well in any divorce the UK government would still have liabilities to Scotland,just as Scotland would have liabilities to the UK.

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Originally Posted by noahrab

Released when nikla was in trouble over Salmond revelations.

It wouldn’t be to divert the focus away from her....would it?

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No

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Originally Posted by GB72

What percentage of 40 plus are still living with their parents?

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hunners 😂 may have exaggerated that a wee bit but it's true that record numbers of young people, those well into their 30s, are living at home. I don't think that's controversial to say, simply a product of ****e wages and ever-rising house prices.

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Originally Posted by Returnofrros

Aye there was loads of middle class type living in Douglas, Whitfield, fintry etc

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£90k to buy a 3-bed house in St Marys now, ok if you can afford it, not so good if you can't. Probably get a house in Fintry easily enough, not like prices will have risen there, not quite the middle-class areas I was talking about.

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Originally Posted by grantzer

Whatever fund is paying pensions now. If you are gonna tell me there is no pension fund,well in any divorce the UK government would still have liabilities to Scotland,just as Scotland would have liabilities to the UK.

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The fact you don’t know that no pension fund exists sums up the independence movement.

A simple test should be taken and passed before people are allowed a vote.