SCOTTISH BLOGGER IN BLOG-SUBSIDY APPEAL ROW

This is an appeal from a leeching Scot to all of you bloggers in the south of England.

You see, as the man about the house points out the Scots are constantly accused of taking money from the poor impoverished people of the south of England.

This is an easily disproved lie but it doesn’t stop the papers going on about it so.

The strange thing is that it is the people who complain about this that are also the ones in favour of keeping the union. The only answer to this is that they must like giving us money (even though they don’t and it is actually the other way round).

So from now on, in keeping with the narrative, I am demanding that you people from London and the south in general keep me supplied with ideas for things to blog about.

Furthermore, I expect you to pay me and keep me in the manner to which I am accustomed.

Get to it.

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This is from the Herald

Myth 1: Scots get more public cash than anyone else.
The Truth: Public spending in Scotland is just £9631 per head, lower than the £10,271 for Northern Ireland and London’s average of £9748.

Myth 2: English taxes pay for Scotland’s high spending.
The Truth: Scotland brings in £9593 per head in tax – more than anywhere in the UK outside of London.  Latest estimates show the tax take from Scotland is £49bn compared with total spending of £49.2bn …[1]

Myth 3: Scots milk the welfare state
The Truth: Latest figures show people living in North-East England claim on average £3284 per head.  Northern Ireland £3256 and £3136 in Wales in state benefits.  Scotland’s pension and benefit cost is £3086 per head.

Myth 4: Scots enjoy better public services than the rest of the UK
The Truth: The Welsh, not the Scots, get free prescriptions, while NHS waiting times in Scotland are broadly in line with England …

Myth 5: State subsidy pays for Scots “big ticket” projects
The Truth: London’s Crossrail project is to cost £16bn – seven and a half times the annual Scottish transport budget.  The 2012 London Olympics means a loss of £9.3bn lottery funding for the rest of the UK.

[1] This is accurate in one way but the figures are skewed to begin with as the oil that comes from Scottish waters is not included in the figures for Scotland.