Funding Gap

[ronaldhinos dentist]

BBC news doing a piece just now on the "generous funding" Scotland receives compared to the rest of England. One woman said " it should be fairly divided to all sides." Here we go.......

[Stapes]

And so the demonisation of Scotland begins.

[ShedTA]

Yep the justification starts for the politicians to break their vow. F@cking unreal.

[Clyde1998]

Don't we subsidize the rUK by £500 per person per year, roughly?

[fringo]

BBC news doing a piece just now on the "generous funding" Scotland receives compared to the rest of England. One woman said " it should be fairly divided to all sides." Here we go.......

Aren't the figures within England hugely variable as well ?

E.g. someone Yorkshire gets a fraction compared to someone in London ?

So the are "regional" differences throughout the UK ?

[ronaldhinos dentist]

WM are obviously looking for support from English voters to justify the cuts and, surprise surprise, use the BBC to put out the message without mentioning our financial input to the treasury.....

[JECK]

Watched this aswell.

Right, i want to know, because i dont really know enough about it. was that blantent lies from the bbc - are we funded more than ruk?

Yes or No folks and why

cheers

[Haggis_trap]

^ Spending in London, Northern Ireland and SW England is higher per head than Scotland
The people who are getting really shafted are those in east midlands and NE england.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_formula

Edited September 25, 2014 by Haggis_trap

[ronaldhinos dentist]

Aren't the figures within England hugely variable as well ?

E.g. someone Yorkshire gets a fraction compared to someone in London ?

So the are "regional" differences throughout the UK ?

I believe there may be areas of inner English cities which receive heavy subsidies.....

Edited September 25, 2014 by ronaldhinos dentist

[Clyde1998]

Watched this aswell.

Right, i want to know, because i dont really know enough about it. was that blantent lies from the bbc - are we funded more than ruk?

Yes or No folks and why

cheers

Yes, by about £1.2k pp more than rUK, but we generate £1.7k pp more than rUK.

[jockodile]

exactly the reason the SNP need to push for FFA.

control the pursestrings in and out and we are 75% towards indy

[Bzzzz]

Absolutely, if they do go down this route then it can only lead to one thing...

[fringo]

^ Spending in London, Northern Ireland and SW England is higher per head than Scotland

The people who are getting really shafted are those in east midlands and NE england.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_formula

I believe there may be areas of inner English cities which receive heavy subsidies.....

Yet Scotland is always given as a bad (or good for those people) example of over subsidising.

Why aren't they quoting those other variances throughout the UK unless it;s simply to downgrade and undermine Scotland ?

[ronaldhinos dentist]

I think we all know where this is going......

[JECK]

So basically viewers were totally misled there, not the full story and anti Scotland slanted.

There has to be a concerted effort to highlight this on a large scale. Surely a site to highlight every mis leading or untrue piece by the bbc, daily mail or torygraph as these are consistently the worst culprits.

[mariokempes56]

Its also a fact that London is subsidised to a ludicrous degree, covering multiple areas compared to UK. Arts was one crazy example plus transport. Sorry don't have figures.

[Big Dod]

It's just such a stupid argument. If we're such a drain why the huge fight to keep us in the union? Because they like us son much?

Give us home rule. Let us keep all income generated in Scotland, including the oil, there's not much left anyway apparently. Let us live within our means. If we're so heavily subsidised then surely that'll be a weight off Englands shoulders?

If they really believe this baloney then nobody can justifiably argue this point.

Although we all know it's not true......

It's just sickening to see Holyrood MSP's line up the same arguments even though they know it's not true either.

[killie97]

Worth watching this again -

- though it is based on 2011/12 figures

[wanday]

The Holtham commission has already proposed that Scotland should lose £4 billion from it's block grant - the £25 billion uk wide cut will see another £2 billion go. Scotland loses 20% of it's block grant and that will create chaos. The BBC and others are preparing the ground - suggesting we are subsidised. It's the other way round but they'll take our cash to reduce the deficit/debt every day of the week if they can get away with it.

The holtham commission cut is there to address southern jealousy at the stuff Scotland gets that England doesn't - free care for the elderly, free education, no prescription charges, council tax freeze etc. The ability of the Scottish government to make a difference is to be extinguished financially. New powers without the financial resources are meaningless.

[Armchair Bob]

If there is one thing we failed miserably on doing in the run up to the referendum it was hammering home to every scot that Scotland is not subsidised, the money flows the other way.

Probably lost the referendum because of this lie.

[exile]

Robert Peston Is the gap in public spending between UK nations fair?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29372503

[johnnie x]

Its an absolute travesty and an abuse of power by the BBC still not sure how they get away with a lack of context. ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL who is being subsidised unless you know what you are contributing in the first place.

Its one half of an equation, Einstein would be apopleptic.

[Armchair Bob]

Yeah, why wasn't a copy of the McCrone report, plus the latest headline GERS figures, posted to every Scottish household? The Yes campaign could have done that one thing then shut up shop, job done.

Too late now for the referendum, but never too late to get people informed.