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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 26, 2023 14:00:57 GMT
'Cash-strapped' Scottish Government to hand out £24m to help climate crisis-hit countries'First Minister Humza Yousaf is expected to confirm on Thursday that he will be sending £24 million to charities helping out in African countries to deal with the climate crisis, despite his administration constantly pleading poverty and threatening service cuts and tax hikes to plug a £1bn black hole in public finances. www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/cash-strapped-scottish-government-hand-30776147This is gold plated virtue signalling incompetence, the SNP has a £1 billion black hole in public finances, yet Yousaf is handing £24 million to African countries in climate reparations. I wonder if the SNP faithful are begining to think, 'come back Nicola, all is forgiven'.
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Post by om15 on Aug 26, 2023 14:07:08 GMT
I suppose Scooter thinks that the bigger mess that he creates the better, it will all fall into Anwar's lap so the SNP can borrow as much as possible, blow it on rubbish woke junk and Labour will have to pick up the pieces.
I have no sympathy with the Scots, they chose these sectarian Marxist bigots as their Parliament, it is their fault that it is such a mess, the polls indicate that they are now going to choose Labour, so they haven't learned anything in the past ten years.
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 26, 2023 14:41:29 GMT
I think there's a hardcore of anti English SNP supporters who will vote SNP regardless because they see the England as the enemy. Although with a Labour revival on the cards in Scotland I'm surprised Yousaf has announced this. It's as if he is courting controversy.
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Post by om15 on Aug 26, 2023 17:07:31 GMT
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Post by morayloon on Aug 26, 2023 17:58:24 GMT
'Cash-strapped' Scottish Government to hand out £24m to help climate crisis-hit countries'First Minister Humza Yousaf is expected to confirm on Thursday that he will be sending £24 million to charities helping out in African countries to deal with the climate crisis, despite his administration constantly pleading poverty and threatening service cuts and tax hikes to plug a £1bn black hole in public finances. www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/cash-strapped-scottish-government-hand-30776147This is gold plated virtue signalling incompetence, the SNP has a £1 billion black hole in public finances, yet Yousaf is handing £24 million to African countries in climate reparations. I wonder if the SNP faithful are begining to think, 'come back Nicola, all is forgiven'. The Scottish Government has to balance the books. They must account for every last penny and cannot overspend. This 'blackhole' is of the UK Government's making. If Scot Gov does not overspend the fault lies elsewhere: so called UK spending in, or on behalf, of Scotland! |
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Post by morayloon on Aug 26, 2023 18:10:27 GMT
I suppose Scooter thinks that the bigger mess that he creates the better, it will all fall into Anwar's lap so the SNP can borrow as much as possible, blow it on rubbish woke junk and Labour will have to pick up the pieces. I have no sympathy with the Scots, they chose these sectarian Marxist bigots as their Parliament, it is their fault that it is such a mess, the polls indicate that they are now going to choose Labour, so they haven't learned anything in the past ten years. ScotGov has only very limited borrowing powers. As for Labour taking over, they still lag behind the SNP so your wishful thinking is just that ... wishful thinking. You and others on this forum have been prophesising the demise of the SNP for years. The 2017 GE result, for instance, was supposed to be the end but, as we know, the party rallied in 2019 and retained its position as the Government in 2021. No Scottish poll has had Labour in front. Yet again your lack of knowledge shines through. As for your second paragraph, I advise a wee bit of research into Scottish Politics. |
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Post by morayloon on Aug 26, 2023 18:16:43 GMT
You really should stop reading those Unionist rags. If what you have just regurgitated is what was published, the 'journalist' ought to take a long hard look at her/himself. ScotGov cannot spend beyond what is received through the Block Grant plus any consequentials that could crop up. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 26, 2023 18:17:27 GMT
'Cash-strapped' Scottish Government to hand out £24m to help climate crisis-hit countries'First Minister Humza Yousaf is expected to confirm on Thursday that he will be sending £24 million to charities helping out in African countries to deal with the climate crisis, despite his administration constantly pleading poverty and threatening service cuts and tax hikes to plug a £1bn black hole in public finances. www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/cash-strapped-scottish-government-hand-30776147This is gold plated virtue signalling incompetence, the SNP has a £1 billion black hole in public finances, yet Yousaf is handing £24 million to African countries in climate reparations. I wonder if the SNP faithful are begining to think, 'come back Nicola, all is forgiven'. The Scottish Government has to balance the books. They must account for every last penny and cannot overspend. This 'blackhole' is of the UK Government's making. If Scot Gov does not overspend the fault lies elsewhere: so called UK spending in, or on behalf, of Scotland! Oh for Christs sake are you serious? 'It's the UK governments fault' really? Moray, the police have been investigating SNP finances for the past couple of years and you're sitting there telling me they account for every penny and cannot overspend! Was Sturgeons confiscated luxury motorhome fully costed? For Yousaf to give away £24 million on a virtue signalling exercise when he is talking about public service cuts and tax hikes to plug a £1bn black hole in public finances is nothing short of utter financial incompetence. |
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Post by om15 on Aug 26, 2023 18:25:01 GMT
Tom Harris writes today,
I think that this clearly sums up the political mess that exists in Scotland, Humza Yousaf is a complete moron, a proven anti white racist and a follower of Marxist dogma, he is following on from the disastrous rule of Sturgeon, ( cleverly engineered by Sturgeon and supported by the simpletons in the SNP).
Of course the cult will dismiss this as an article in a "Unionist Rag", this imbecility is why Scotland is in such a mess.
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Post by morayloon on Aug 26, 2023 19:45:31 GMT
The Scottish Government has to balance the books. They must account for every last penny and cannot overspend. This 'blackhole' is of the UK Government's making. If Scot Gov does not overspend the fault lies elsewhere: so called UK spending in, or on behalf, of Scotland! Oh for Christs sake are you serious? 'It's the UK governments fault' really? Moray, the police have been investigating SNP finances for the past couple of years and you're sitting there telling me they account for every penny and cannot overspend! Was Sturgeons confiscated luxury motorhome fully costed? For Yousaf to give away £24 million on a virtue signalling exercise when he is talking about public service cuts and tax hikes to plug a £1bn black hole in public finances is nothing short of utter financial incompetence. You seem to be confusing party and Government. What has happened in the upper echelons of the party has yet to become clear. The fact is that the SNP has overseen 16 years of good financial management. This 'blackhole' is not of ScotGov's making. No ScotGov has overspent during the existence of the Scottish Parliament. |
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Post by om15 on Aug 26, 2023 20:38:55 GMT
Analysis of GERS shows us the following points
· At £14.8bn Scotland's fiscal deficit last year was 9.5 per cent of Scottish GDP.
· That was over twice the UK deficit, and higher than any other member of the EU, including Greece.
· Despite sometimes record oil prices, Scotland has run a deficit every single year since devolution in 1999. The deficit has deteriorated over recent years, and is now running even higher than during the aftermath of the 2008 Crash.
· Scotland's North Sea revenues have collapsed by £9.6bn since 2011-12, equivalent to six percentage points of GDP. Falling production means that revenue loss will never be recovered even if oil prices return to previous highs.
· Despite this collapse in revenues, Scotland's public spending remains far in excess of England's. Spending per head is 20 per cent higher, equivalent to around 6 per cent of Scotland's GDP. This is sustained not by the Scottish economy, but by the continuing subsidy from English taxpayers via the Barnett Formula.
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Post by thomas on Aug 26, 2023 20:58:24 GMT
Analysis of GERS shows us the following points · At £14.8bn Scotland's fiscal deficit last year was 9.5 per cent of Scottish GDP. dear fucking god above om. I really do sometimes wonder what planet you are on. GERS was introduced in 1992 by the conservative government by the then scottish secretary of state ian lang. Now just to recap for the hard of understanding , this was 7 years before the reconvention of the scottish parliament.
GERS reflects how the uk government controls the majority of levers of scotlands economy. It doesnt show how the scottish parliament ,the scottish government or the snp run the economy because they dont.
Nearly quarter of a century on from devolution , and 31 years on from GERS being set up by the london tory government and im still shocked that people like you dont understand this .
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Post by thomas on Aug 26, 2023 21:01:30 GMT
This is sustained not by the Scottish economy, but by the continuing subsidy from English taxpayers via the Barnett Formula. The Barnett formula, which has determined Scottish Government funding since devolution, works by taking the money spent in England on services and allocating an equivalent percentage (based on population and devolved service provision) to the Scottish Government. By its nature, the formula is therefore not linked to the actual money raised in Scotland, or even the affordability of services from our tax base – it merely gives a lump sum to Holyrood based on the previous year’s spending in England. And it’s this system that will eventually lead to the undermining of the Scottish Government’s finances.
Even if the people of England wound up paying substantially more for the same services, or the Scottish tax base took a rapid growth spurt upwards, it wouldn’t matter. The funding for Scotland is based on the money that Westminster and local government spends in England, and only the money they spend.
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Post by happyjack on Aug 27, 2023 1:24:40 GMT
Analysis of GERS shows us the following points · At £14.8bn Scotland's fiscal deficit last year was 9.5 per cent of Scottish GDP. dear fucking god above om. I really do sometimes wonder what planet you are on. GERS was introduced in 1992 by the conservative government by the then scottish secretary of state ian lang. Now just to recap for the hard of understanding , this was 7 years before the reconvention of the scottish parliament.
GERS reflects how the uk government controls the majority of levers of scotlands economy. It doesnt show how the scottish parliament ,the scottish government or the snp run the economy because they dont.
Nearly quarter of a century on from devolution , and 31 years on from GERS being set up by the london tory government and im still shocked that people like you dont understand this . 
Oh dear, thomas, are you still pulling others up for getting things wrong while demonstrating a complete lack of understanding yourself?
Om15 is wrong in the extract that you highlight above, but not for reason that you so mockingly chastise him. Rather, he has significantly understated the scale of Scotland’s notional fiscal deficit as captured in the most recent GERS figures. The deficit was actually £19.1 billion and would have been considerably higher but for the boost that our revenues received in 2022/23 from the windfall tax on oil and gas. Without this temporary boost in revenue our deficit would have been in excess of £25 billion, evidencing the seemingly ever-increasing gap between the standard of living that Scotland enjoys courtesy of us being part of the UK - and the deep austerity conditions that the government of a newly independent Scotland would be obliged to impose upon us if we ever had to live within our means.
GERS does not reflect “how the uk government controls the majority of levers of scotlands economy“ as you claim - it simply shows how much we raise in revenue, how much expenditure we benefit from, and, by deducting one from the other, how big our notional fiscal deficit is.
To reflect your own words back at you ... “Nearly quarter of a century on from devolution, and 31 years on from GERS being set up by the london tory government and im still shocked that people like you dont understand this.”
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Post by Red Rackham on Aug 27, 2023 1:48:49 GMT
Happyjack, Thomas has a much nicer avatar that you, but your understanding of GERS is a breath of fresh air.
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