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Westminster blow over new tax plan

THE UK Government has torpedoed the SNP’s pledge to scrap council tax by ruling out paying millions in vital financial support.

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LOTHIAN_SKY

05.03.08, 7:14pm



You have my full permission to leave this (so called) Union.
Contrary to what you believe,your country is drawing disproportionate funds,due to the completely outdated Barnet formula.
Barnet himself said that it should be scrapped.
Furthermore,most revenue is generated in England,you Scots being engrossed in following your "hobbies",of which we shall say no more.
Your heroes derring-do is mostly mythical,you are free to worship them as you wish and that includes the very absent Connery.
Your country was not so much "taken over" as taken under the wing of the English,we have been feeding and watering you for three hundred years,by all means,take your freedom and free us English from the never ending maintenance payments.
Yes,we English cheered on your "also ran" Murray,just as much as he supported England in the world cup.
Stop whinging and whining and start shifting for yourselves for a change,you never know,you might even like it.
But remember this,it will be cold when you creep out from under the English wing and there will be no going back.
Good luck and goodbye.

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HMM

05.03.08, 2:16pm

All you do is cut and paste tabloid lies.
Make your mind up.
You hate us for wanting independence from Britain, and slag off our heroes. Scots rioted in the streets to prevent the union. We are tied to England because of your greed, and your lies.
How do you think the UK came about? It wasn't our idea.

Yet you love nothing than more than moaning about the money we get back from the UK tax pot. (Yes, UK tax pot, not England's.) We get back less than we put in. Less than London. Less than Northern Ireland. Less than many English regions. None of these places are pumping billions of oil revenue into the UK treasury for the English to piss away on stupid wars. We are! That's why we want independence. If anyone is being ripped off, it's us. Again and again. We're not moaning, we're doing something about it.

You harp on about Scotland having this/that/the other. You've clearly never been to Scotland in your life. Your arguments are hollow.

Stop moaning and do something about it if you're not happy. We are not preventing you voting out Labour. We are not preventing you having an English Parliament. Who keeps Scotland in the union? The Labour Party, funded by England. Based in England. Please let us go. Please, please, please please please. We are sooo tired of listening to your crap.

I cant take any of your posts seriously because you are totally thick and blinkered. You only see what you want to see. So there's no point engaging in conversation with you.

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BAAA

05.03.08, 10:51am

You don't need all that money in England. You are too rich. Share and share alike! We have healthy crack addictions which require YOUR money. So stop whingeing and just cough up!
That's what Britain is for, after all. We get your cash, you get to watch Andy Murray being shite at tennis. Can't say fairer than that.
p.s.
It's great being Scottish. Scotland For£v£r!

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IN THEIR DREAMS LUCABRASI

04.03.08, 8:33pm



And when they fail,as they surely will,they will come snivelling back to us hated English to pick up the pieces.
If the Scots were ever able to paddle their own canoe,they would have set sail two centuries ago.
No,much easier to take our English largesse and then blame us for giving it to them.
But Luca,their days are numbered,even us (very)tolerant English have a breaking point and we are now very close to that.

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WARLORD

04.03.08, 4:04pm

Well said. I can see I'm not the only one who begrudges every penny that goes to scitland and probably just gets spent on fags & booze, while they laugh at how soft we are. The laughable thing, is that they actually believe they can do without the ENGLISH pound. They would end up like a desolate wasteland without our cash. The scuttish parliament know this, which is why they are squeeling like stuck pigs over this money.

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NOT FROM CHOICE

04.03.08, 2:24pm



This would have been the last straw for the English.
I know that we will stand for anything but this would surely have brought us onto the streets.
Feelings are running high south of the border,when every single financial commitment we have (including council tax) is escalating at an alarming rate.
Despite our own hardship, we are expected to featherbed the Scots.
This would have been political suicide for this highwayman.

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AT LAST

04.03.08, 2:02pm

The Broon Government is actually keeping back some of the hard earned ENGLISH taxpayers money from being wasted North of the border.
Pay for it yourself and have some dignity for once. We are sick of subsidising you.
Grasping gets.

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WESTMINSTER BLOW

04.03.08, 9:56am

They have torpedoed their own feet!

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WHAT TORPODOE ?

03.03.08, 11:30pm

This is either a dangerous or stupid manouvere
by London Labour; the Scottish voter will see the
action as totally anti Scottish./ If Bendy Wendy
dares vote down what the Scottish people have
voted for then she and the Nu Labour Numpties
will suffer a defeat of Volcanic proportions at
future elections. Brown has told the Scottish
Labour candidates ' Go Serve the Scottish People'. We the Scottish People are watching.

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WESTMINSTER BLOW OVER NEW TAX PLAN

03.03.08, 6:37pm


There is no point in voting Labour then!

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STATELESS IN KUWAIT

03.03.08, 8:30am

Stateless in kuwait suffer from many problem each one bigger than one, they can not work , or make any contract as marrige or have car , or certificates for their children.
They live in kuwait long time with estitution of Kuwait. Their grandfathers have documentary as certificates of born in Kuwait before indepenty but government still fight them in their living , education, health. Now stateless become as people live in africa, inspite their country (kuwait) have good economy. Islamic Members of parlament hate them according with opinion of government they do not make any consideration for the religion and factors and rights of humintary!

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