Can anyone say if

[noahrab]

Read the actual title of the article to get an idea of where the paper's alleigances lie (quote) '...Exactly how much money does Scotland contribute to England... ?'

That's right it asks how much Scotland contributes to jolly old England, not to the UK although in fairness this abbaration is corrected in the article text..

Then within the text we read (quote again)

'Does Scotland take more than its fair share of UK public spending'?

It is difficult to say whether Scotland gets an unfairly high proportion of UK public spending'.

It's 'difficult to say', In the year carefully choisen by Islay it seems Scotland might well have received more however Islay's made a bit of a boo boo because his 'research' is, as usual, half assed at best because the article also says

'In 2013, Professor Brian Ashcroft at the University of Strathclyde studied experimental figures from the Scottish Government and found that extra spending per capita on Scotland was almost exactly cancelled out by extra tax revenue between 1980/81 and 2011/2012'.

So in these years there's been a break even - but Islay does like to mention this one year when Scotland might, or might not, have been given more than it contributed by its English masters - don't you Islay?

‘English masters’ ����������

Never understood why it’s only nationalists who have ‘masters’.

Think it must be self esteem issues.

[BCram]

100% not

And contrary to Westminster propaganda it aint running out any time soon.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...h-sea-revenue/

Think this website says that the revenues were higher in the earlier years.

[Deeranged]

Oil is running out.

Not in the lifetimes of anyone currently alive it's not - how many genrations is that?

[noahrab]

Not in the lifetimes of anyone currently alive it's not - how many genrations is that?

Thanks for confirming it’s running out.

[Deeranged]

Thanks for confirming it’s running out.

Obviously there's a finite amount of oil and gas in the North Sea so, 'technically' or even 'anally' (you'll understand that word better) as long as we're taking it it's 'running out'.

However the finite number is forever moving up as new discoveries are made. Do you have a date for this infamous 'whoops, it's all gone' day?

[noahrab]

Obviously there's a finite amount of oil and gas in the North Sea so, 'technically' or even 'anally' (you'll understand that word better) as long as we're taking it it's 'running out'.

However the finite number is forever moving up as new discoveries are made. Do you have a date for this infamous 'whoops, it's all gone' day?

Again you confirm that not only is it running out but that it will run out.

Cheers mate.

[Deeranged]

Again you confirm that not only is it running out but that it will run out.

Cheers mate.

Mate?

Na, don't think so.

[The AuldYin]

Mate?

Na, don't think so.

Get him told, tell him your go to reply when your getting rinsed tell him you're out.

[noahrab]

Get him told, tell him your go to reply when your getting rinsed tell him you're out.

Another one who has his number.

[noahrab]

Mate?

Na, don't think so.

Really? Ach well, at least I tried.