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[BCram]

Sorry to bring this thread back but I see there are comments in the Letters page of the Courier that Scotland sends more money to Westminster than it gets in direct grant for Holyrood to distribute. I still think the SNP are completely wrong in trying to make this point but perhaps I have missed something.

[Mainlanddee]

Sorry to bring this thread back but I see there are comments in the Letters page of the Courier that Scotland sends more money to Westminster than it gets in direct grant for Holyrood to distribute. I still think the SNP are completely wrong in trying to make this point but perhaps I have missed something.

Think it is true bcram , there is money held back for things like defense spending etc that is spent by the uk as a whole , and there is things like hs2 , London crossrail and London underground that's funded as uk wide , undoubtedly Scotland does very well out the barnett formula, but London and the South East does well , out of all the central government jobs based in Westminster.

[islaydarkblue]

Think it is true bcram , there is money held back for things like defense spending etc that is spent by the uk as a whole , and there is things like hs2 , London crossrail and London underground that's funded as uk wide , undoubtedly Scotland does very well out the barnett formula, but London and the South East does well , out of all the central government jobs based in Westminster.

I remember reading an article in the Sunday Times newspaper over a year ago that London and the south east area raises the greatest amount of taxes and they are subsidising the other regions throughout the U.K. including Scotland.
From memory before the Scottish Independence referendum it was stated that an independent Scotland would have to pay if they wanted to part of the U.K. defence services to transfer to the control of the Scottish government otherwise they would have to set up their Scottish Army, Navy and Air Force.
Fortunately it never happened.