ENGLAND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT ON SPENDING - CONFIRMED YET AGAIN BY HOUSE OF COMMONS LIBRARY
The House of Commons Library published a paper
in November last year which was brought to my attention recently. The report has the figures for the financial
year 2016/17 of the Barnett Formula. The
Barnett Formula determines that differential spending on UK citizens depending
on which of the UK countries those citizens live in.
The summary of the House of Commons research paper
shows that England has the lowest national average spent on every man, woman
and child. This was £8,898 in 2016/17. In Northern Ireland by contrast, it was
£11,042.
If you live in the English “Regions” of the
South East, East of England, East Midlands, South West or West Midlands you get
less spent on you than even the average of England. It is only in London that British Government
spending is more than even one of the other Nations of the UK. It is slightly more than Wales. London has £10,192 for every man, woman and
child, instead of the Welsh average of £10,076!
This Barnett Formula spread in payments, which
advantages Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is only for so-called “identifiable
expenditure”, which is about 88% of the total public spending of the UK. So the costs of the Foreign Office and of
membership of the EU, and of Foreign Aid and Defence parts of the 12% of total
public spending are not covered by the Barnett Formula. So also no allowance is
made for the policies under which the British Government has headquartered
British State agencies in Scotland and Wales, as for instance the DVLA and
HMRC. This is of course a yet further
method of increasing the British State subsidy to those nations.
It is worth pointing out that Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland get yet a further method of subsidy at the moment through
the EU. The contributions to the EU
which come out of English Taxpayers’ pockets (as that is the only part of the
UK for which there is a net tax revenue) are funnelled back to Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland as EU payments, under the so-called “Conduit Effect”.
Some of the additional subsidy to London is
not part of the Barnett Formula but is explained by the British State spending
money on the security of its political class with its large expenditure on
armed police to guard the State’s buildings, the provision of diversity
barriers and all the other paraphernalia of running the British State.
The other aspect of this of course is that
London is now in John Cleese’s words “no longer an English city”. The subsidy coming into London is from the
predominantly English Regions to the predominantly non-English communities within
London. This is the fiscal background to
the anti-English, metropolitan, inter-nationalist, multi-culturalism of the Labour
Party’s predominance in London.
Here is the House of Commons summary and also
there is the link to the report itself which you can download>>>
http://www.scottishconservatives.com/2018/08/separate-scot;lands-13bn-black-hole-revealed/
In the last few days The Scottish Conservative Party
under their multiculturalist Leader, Ruth Davidson, have been gloating again
about Scotland’s “Union Dividend”.
Here is a quotation of part of their press release:-
“Scotland now raises eight per cent of UK total
revenue, while receiving 9.3 per cent of spending.
Total spending per person in Scotland for
2017/18 was £1576 per head higher than the rest of the UK, compared to £1448
per head the previous year.
Scottish Conservative shadow finance secretary
Murdo Fraser said:
“If Nicola Sturgeon wants to continue her
threat of second referendum, she has to come out and explain where she would
find £13 billion to fill this deficit.
“Assuming that can’t be done, the prospect of
another divisive and unwelcome vote must be removed for good so Scotland can
focus on what really matters.
“Yet again, the union dividend has been made
clear.
“By being part of the UK, Scotland received an
extra £1576 for every man, woman and child last year above the UK average. For
a family of four, that’s more than £6000 in additional public spending.
“If Scotland was to be ripped out the UK, this
spending would be slashed drastically, meaning schools, hospitals and
infrastructure would be hit.
“Any Scottish Government would also have to
massively increase taxes and borrowing to help make up the difference,
something the hardworking public simply wouldn’t accept.
Here is the link to the original on the
Scottish Conservatives’ Website>>> http://www.scottishconservatives.com/2018/08/separate-scotlands-13bn-black-hole-revealed/
As a demonstration of how “Fake News” looks
here is the text of the Telegraph’s article about this with its minor editing
of the Scottish Conservatives’ Press Release:-
SNP urged to ditch plans for indyref2 as figures reveal Scotland's £13 billion deficit is four times the size of the UK's
- Auslan Cramb, scottish correspondent
22 AUGUST 2018 •
Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to
abandon her threat of a second independence referendum after official figures revealed
that Scotland ran
up a £13 billion deficit last year that was four times the size of the UK’s.
Official figures on the state of the country’s
finances also disclosed a record “Union dividend”
of nearly £1,900 for every man, woman and child in Scotland.
That figure is made up of public spending that
was £1,576 higher per person north of the border in 2017/18, while
Scotland's public sector tax contributions were £306 less per head.
The Government Expenditure and Revenue
Scotland (Gers) figures - the difference between what the country raised in
taxes and what it spent - revealed a total deficit of £13.4 billion, or
7.9 per cent of GDP -down from 8.9 per cent in 2016/17. The UK's spending
deficit was just 1.9 per cent of GDP, down from 2.3 per cent.
Overall, Scotland’s public finances showed a
slight improvement, thanks to North Sea revenue rising by more than £1
billion.
The First Minister claimed the figures proved
Scotland was “on the right trajectory”, when considered alongside recent
positive labour market statistics.
She added: "With the limited economic
powers currently at our disposal, the actions we are taking to promote
sustainable economic development are helping to ensure that the key economic
indicators are moving in the right direction.”
However, the Scottish Conservatives said the
finances of the rest of the UK were improving faster and the gap between
the two was widening, with Scotland now raising eight per cent of
total UK revenue, while receiving 9.3 per cent of spending.
Murdo Fraser, Tory finance spokesman, said Ms
Sturgeon needed to ditch plans for a new bid to break-up Britain or
explain how she would find the billions required to file Scotland’s economic
black hole in the event of independence.
He added: “If Nicola Sturgeon wants to
continue her threat of second referendum, she has to come out and explain where
she would find £13 billion to fill this deficit.
“Assuming that can’t be done, the prospect of
another divisive and unwelcome vote must be removed for good so Scotland can
focus on what really matters.
These figures confirm that being part of a
strong United Kingdom is worth nearly £1,900 for every single person in
ScotlandDavid Mundell
“Yet again, the union dividend has been made
clear. By being part of the UK, Scotland received an extra £1,576 for every
man, woman and child last year above the UK average. For a family of
four, that’s more than £6,000 in additional public spending.
“If Scotland was to be ripped out the UK, this
spending would be slashed drastically, meaning schools, hospitals and infrastructure
would be hit.
“Any Scottish Government would also have to
massively increase taxes and borrowing to help make up the difference,
something the hardworking public simply wouldn’t accept.
Eveen the National Lottery is mandated to give proportionately more money to Scotland than England. The English punter pays for Scotland yet again.
ReplyDeleteI have just come across a tweet from the Scottish Conservatives lauding the “Union Dividend”. The tweet proclaims: “This week we once again saw the benefit of being in the UK. Thanks to the Union every Scot received an extra £1,576 above the UK average . . . .” Do not the Scottish Conservatives wonder how these words will be received by the English and Welsh?
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