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to be like any other normal European country, a fiscally autonomous Scotland would have to significantly increase taxes and/or severely cut public spending - this is the simple truth that much of the SNP’s rhetoric around GERS seems designed to obscure these-islands.co.uk/publications/i…
Must be a mad job sitting in an office in Tehran posting tweets about the Barnett Formula. Real commitment to the bit.
tbf i’d block me too if i was trying to consistently lie about Scotland’s share of spending vs Scotland’s share of tax generation
remarkable how the SNP seek to take credit for calling for things they don’t have to take any responsibility for funding
Reminder: the SNP always had the power to eliminate the 2-child cap in Scotland, and did nothing for 8 years. Labour has abolished it within 18 months of coming into government.
Nicola Sturgeon says she won’t get rid of the 2-child cap in Scotland because she doesn’t have the money. And she doesn’t want to raise taxes to pay for it. (FMQs, 13th December 2018)
The Barnett formula does not give Scotland a “share” of the tax cash we send south. It gives Scotland all of that cash, plus substantially more. About £2,600 more *per person* in Scotland.
Rachel Reeves says she'll give @Scotgov an extra £820million 'because Anas Sarwar asked me to'. Desperate attempt to champion the Scottish Labour leader. Money actually comes from Barnett formula, which gives Scots a share of the tax cash we send south. It's not largesse.
The UK Government is prioritising a 'team Scotland' approach to support workers at the Mossmorran site in Fife. Scottish Secretary @D_G_Alexander spoke following a meeting today between key partners, including @scotgov and @FifeCouncil, in Glenrothes.
“man deletes tweet”
partisan journalism 1.01: brand any action taken by those you oppose - no matter how trivial or obviously correct - as being something they were “forced” to do
partisan journalism 1.01: brand any action taken by those you oppose - no matter how trivial or obviously correct - as being something they were “forced” to do
Scottish Labour minister Michael Shanks has been forced to delete an embarrassing blunder about Scotland’s national day thenational.scot/news/25648269.…
the narcissism of small differences …
The SNP spent more of your money just so we didn't use the same system as England. We are being governed by children.
democracies don’t collapse overnight, they gradually erode in acts of fear … 👇
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Pathetically predictable.
SNP pressed ahead with separate Scottish NHS app after being warned it would look bad to use English one - 1/2 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…
When I talk to MMT fans in the UK I find that they like it because it does something really common. It takes something simple and makes it more complicated so that they feel clever and feel like they have a special insiders view of things.
I really don't like the "people searching for simple solutions to complicated problems" line. Yes that can be a problem, but in Britain, and in my work, far more often, I find we do the opposite. We take simple things and we make them too complicated so we feel special.
The Iranian ScotNats are trying desperately to cover their tracks and avoid an X ban by amending the regions. I don’t think it’ll save them. 😂
i do enjoy people discovering the joys of trying to parse the nonsense that Richard Murphy spouts
This is even more mental than I thought. You can kind of understand why an ignorant person might fall for some of it. As a speaker, he has the trustworthy tone of the Open University about him. But that's being too charitable. Sorry, but you'd have to be an idiot to believe this…
what does any country get out of the fact that some regions rely on the support of others? the concept of national solidarity is deep-rooted and nations do not exist based merely on narrow transactional considerations
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