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**Sixty** · 11-10-2009, 15:04

Originally Posted by MrShanklysboots

What Scottish share of Taxes? The country is a drain on the public purse.

Yes, of course it is. No-one in Scotland pays any tax at all. Now why don't you get back to your Heil on Sunday?

**Fallschirmjager** · 11-10-2009, 15:05

Bring Longshanks back!

**parapauk** · 11-10-2009, 15:08

They had their chance in the 1970s. They blew it, and now 70% of the oil is gone.

**Biscuits_AB** · 11-10-2009, 15:11

And of course Liverpool and all her bleating hard done by compensation chasers isn't?

**Biscuits_AB** · 11-10-2009, 15:12

Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager

Bring Longshanks back!

I preferred his brother Hamshanks.

**rickshaw-major** · 11-10-2009, 15:13

Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager

Bring Longshanks back!

Why do you want a Frog running the Country? :D We are in enough sh1t as it is.

**Hakagure** · 11-10-2009, 15:18

Originally Posted by Biscuits_AB

Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager

Bring Longshanks back!

I preferred his brother Hamshanks.

Did he have a twin called Lambshanks ??, I much preferred him.

**whitecity** · 11-10-2009, 15:20

Crookshanks?

**MrShanklysboots** · 11-10-2009, 15:24

Originally Posted by Sixty

Originally Posted by MrShanklysboots

What Scottish share of Taxes? The country is a drain on the public purse.

Yes, of course it is. No-one in Scotland pays any tax at all. Now why don't you get back to your Heil on Sunday?

Scotland pays its own way despite its depiction as a spendthrift nation abusing the generosity of English taxpayers, according to a new analysis of government spending. And far from receiving an unfair proportion of the tax pot, the breakdown shows that Scotland gets less public spending per head than Northern Ireland or London.
Tax revenues from Scotland almost match the country's £49.2bn a year public spending - although only if all North Sea oil and gas revenues are attributed to Edinburgh, a controversial allocation.

From (an admittedly 2007) article in the Grauniad Here

Or if you prefer Here from Oxford Economics using old Figures, that say in 04/05 Scotland Contributed 38.6 Billion, yet had SPENT on it 45.6 Billion.

Scotland is a Drain on the Overall Public Purse. When you become independent (as I so fervently hope you do) I look forward to the payment of reparations to the English Tax purse.

Yours a small minded English Bigot.