To save time, in brief:-
Barry,
Scotland sends £9593/head in tax to Westminster - more than anywhere else outside London.
QEDScotland pays £49billion/year in tax - only London pays more.
QEDPeople in NE England claim on average £3,284/head in benefits compared to £3086/head in Scotland.
Living in wrong place then! Public spending in Scotland at £9631/head is lower than London at £9748. Northern Ireland is highest. Per last &
QEDFor the last 40 years Scotland has sent more taxes to London than has come back. (Who's being subsidised?)
By who's equation?Massive amounts of public cash have been poured into the Dome, the British Library, Portcullis House, Crossrail and now the Olympics. Many parts of the UK, let alone Scotland would be happy to get a fraction of this investment.
1 & 5 granted, complete rubbish, but where did the idea come from?!Andy, You know there were some interesting stats. a short while ago that proved an interesting point in this. Whilst indeed around 37% of accidents involved alcohol, one should deduct the factor of who actually caused the accident. Now, I can't remember off hand the precise figures, and indeed they are probably a touch out of date by a couple of years, but the actual figure clearly stated - at that time - to be the direct cause of any accident was 1%. Ok, this is not acceptable, but when one reduces this to death caused by same the result is about 0.001 on average - or thereabouts. Please don't expect me to prove these figures, I don't have a head for figures, it's just some useless gnrl. info. gathered along the way!!!!
Regards, Bernard