When did the Scottish people make the decisions how money collected in Scotland is spent?
Taxes collected in Scotland go directly to the UK Treasury and WESTMINSTER decides how the money is spent. WESTMINSTER is therefore 100% responsible for creating the ONE TRILLION POUNDS PLUS national debt.
When we vote in the Westminster elections Blair/Brown/Darling? The money is equally split with us getting a higher per capita spend.The current Scottish government with its very limited powers can only spend the money it receives from Westminster, and the SNP government has done a very decent job in allocating the money.
It has tax raising powers which it chooses not to use so has to play the victim.
Can you tell me why the additional funding for shovel ready products hasn't been spent? Why isn't it being spent? Why has Holyrood chosen to stall the economy now to give out freebies next year?
I have made my point very clearly - the TRILLION POUNDS PLUS national debt has not been created by the Scottish government, the SNP or Alex Salmond - the three entitities who are blamed for everything by the anti-Independence axis. It is YOUR comment that IS "absurd".
I'm not blaming the SNP for any of that. I will however have a go that they were very vocal in their support of RBS's takeover of ABN Amro and then have the audacity to claim that they wouldn't have allowed it to happen and that that car crash wouldn't have impacted us had we been seperate.Again another "absurd" comment totally unrelated to what was being discussed. But tell me:
What % of the vote did the SNP get and what % of seats in the Scottish parliament?
Well we only had a 50% turnout
What % of the vote did the Conservatives get and what % of seats in the UK parliament?
You do love you're percentages don't you? I reckon you've been counting how many times the word Scotland/Scottish has been used tonight on Comic relief. Anything under 8.6% of the time and we're oppressed. Anything above 8.6% of the time and we can stand on our own two feet.
Seeing as you love percentages so much. Can you tell me why with 50% of the vote in Holyrood and only 6 of the 59 seats in Westminster. Support for seperation has consistemtly remained at 30% for so long?
How many people therefore voted for the SNP that don't want to seperate? Riddle me that.
http://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Images/Scotland/KeyTrends/Scotland_SPOMKT_IndyTrend_Feb13_lrg.jpg
Support for them only seems to grow for their pipe dream in times of economic downturn. But that's figures as people vote for non main parties. It would appear that they are a regional party that at best can be said to represent regional issues in a regional devolved environment.