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[staffs riffraff 1,068]

That cant be correct can it paulus? Surely if we add those numbers up its many times more than the offcial figure?

[DIDO.1 22,487]

I'm not saying ukip will solve it but it's a start, smash the status quo and the con/lab toxic power share.

 

May people will say that ukip and farage are just the same but looking at the resources and underhand tricks thrown against ukip I'd say there is some difference.... It's the only tiny hope we have

[DIDO.1 22,487]

That's over 5 years staffs riffraff

[staffs riffraff 1,068]

Even 10 years thats some billions going out the country

[staffs riffraff 1,068]

690million to china how can we tolerate this?

[staffs riffraff 1,068]

3,000,000,000+ to israel thats nearly £400 each to every man woman and child there unbelievable again even more to india as well then consider what we give away in aid we pay the same amount to the EU and we got no say whatsoever on it and our government goes on about democracy and dictators lol greatest form of slavery is if the slaves think there free

[shepp 2,285]

The year 2014 / 2015, foreign aid budget will be £12.2 billion which is 1.6% of government budget.

A very expensive ego trip for politicians.

[Joe1888 672]

a good one

[Joe1888 672]

aload of shite..

 

 

mate the picture was just abit banter, for a laugh, was expecting a braveheart comment or suttin lol

 

it happens on both sides, what do you think the tories are doing to try win seats, playing the english vrs scottish card..

Edited May 3, 2015 by Joe1888

[Blackbriar 8,569]

What we're probably going to end up with is what we have now - a government that no-one voted for !

Two parties, who didn't win, will join forces and declare that they have won.........

 

 

Thoughts on another election before the year's out ............?

[truescot 234]

You just provoke anti british sentiment, I wonder what the 'BRITS' fighting in the front line think of your anti english stance. I see folk such as yourself as an enemy to the united kingdom . I'm obviously pro British , but if everyone felt like you I'd petition to rebuild hadrian's wall and let brussels own your arse. Your fellow countrymen voted to stay in the union , live with it and stop whinging .Anyone would think you're an anti stirring it.

You should try living amongst the b*****ds!

 

Good to see a fellow Brit not forgetting were not all on the SNP bandwagon. In fact if the referendum showed anything it's what scots think. Don't help the nats by dividing each other,it's there game plan!

 

Oh and if it was left to me it wouldn't be hadrians wall I would build to purge this rabble lol

Edited May 3, 2015 by truescot

[Guest ragumup]

 

What we're probably going to end up with is what we have now - a government that no-one voted for !

Two parties, who didn't win, will join forces and declare that they have won.........

 

 

Thoughts on another election before the year's out ............?

I think there's a good chance of it, then you'll see the smaller parties either fall to the way side as people want a strong single governing party or they'll see that a smaller party has done well enough to not be a wasted vote and people will fall in line for the underdog. At least its not a two horse race....or if it is at least you don't have to vote lib dem to waste a vote lol.

 

Joe777 maybe you should shut up and see what happens 'eh son'...

[nothernlite 18,076]

a good one

Nothing wrong with that picture Joe there all fecking torries anyway get them out of scotland

[Joe1888 672]

JOHN JAPPY is a retired civil servant from Head Office in London, Accounting Division - linked to the Treasury

Scotland's demand for "Full Fiscal Autonomy"

Friday, 1 May 2015

During the Referendum campaign various promises were made by the Unionists to keep us from voting for Independence; in the case of Gordon Brown a late intervention of a guaranteed promise of "Full Fiscal Autonomy" (FFA) if we voted to stay in the Union; which in simple terms means to give Scots the ability to keep, and spend as we wish, all taxes raised in Scotland.

But now we are seeing the same desperate scare stories that we saw in the later stages of the Independence Referendum campaign to prevent us achieving this. Why should this be so? The Unionists know that achieving FFA at Holyrood will result in huge benefits for Scotland - leading to an unstoppable surge for full Independence.

Before each Westminster Election, the Party in opposition always says the same thing, namely "once we get our hands on the books we will be able to tell you what we will do". This of course to a large extent is true and we can only consider pre-election promises of major changes in policy as "speculative". Politicians are not accountants and can often ignore sound advice given to them by Civil Servants, and at the highest level can often panic when things don’t work out as expected. One incident comes to mind which shows how easily this can happen.

Whilst a Civil Servant and working on taxation figures for the National Budget, I received a phone call from a very anxious Chancellor of the Exchequer, who enquired why the Tax Revenues collected to date were only 50% of the expected figure of 60%. It gave me much pleasure to tell him that due to a Scottish bank holiday the figure of revenues from the Scottish Whisky Industry had failed to arrive in time to be included in the current total. The next week the figure shot up to 72%.

Whilst times have greatly changed and payments from most large companies go directly to London, (which will cause some disentangling problems when we get Full Fiscal Autonomy) but the bottom line is always the same: Only by getting full control of both tax raising and spending powers will Scotland thrive. The unionist media are scared stiff of this happening and, as they do know the position of Scotland's hidden wealth, we will see an even wider fear campaign leading up to the 7th May.

Some facts that emerged prior to the Referendum are worth recalling.

Firstly. Scottish taxpayers have for the last 33 years paid more tax per head of population than their counterparts south of the Border.

Secondly. The "Financial Times", a newspaper which values its international reputation for honesty and integrity above any political expediency, published in detail on 2 February 2014 how much better off Scotland would be from Day 1 of gaining Independence (my article was printed in the Scots Independent of February 2014 and can also be viewed on my blog athttp://scotlandowntwofeet.blogspot.co.uk).

Most senior Westminster politicians that I encountered during my career had scant knowledge of how the financial system works. One of the best current examples is Danny Alexander, whom in a letter I sent to all Highland local newspapers he was described by me as "a mere puppet, reading from a script given to him, whilst his Tory masters pulled the strings" (only the Danny loving "Inverness Courier" failed to publish).

Now we are back to pre-referendum scare mongering in a last ditch effort by the pals Labour and the Tories to prevent the SNP from sweeping the boards on May 7th and lead the way to fiscal autonomy with our powerful presence in Westminster.

Let us take one example of their false manipulations. The fall in oil prices has been seized upon with glee to claim that this would bankrupt an Independent Scotland. Nothing could be further from the truth. From the start of the "Oil Boom", some £250 billion of Scottish Tax Revenues have gone directly to the London Exchequer and added directly to the Consolidated Fund (containing taxes raised from all other sources), resulting in only a minor addition to the funding given to Scotland through the Barnett Formula. However, with either Independence or full financial control through "Full Fiscal Autonomy", every penny would belong to Scotland. Even if the financial yield were to fall by 50%, it would result in a vast improvement to finances to what is currently provided through the Barnett Formula. This is just an example why the Unionists will not give Scotland full fiscal control.

Where are you hiding Gordon Brown?

* http://fullfiscalautonomy.blogspot.co.uk/

* https://twitter.com/JohnJappy/status/594475045851889664

 

 

[WILF 46,549]

SNP, UKIP, Monster Raving Loony......vote for them all because the only hope for Britain is that the "main" parties get wiped out !!