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Post by Vinny on Oct 4, 2023 10:26:12 GMT
Simple as that. £696.1m for NHS Scotland currently wasted on the wages of separatist lunatics and other jobsworths. www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-budget-2023-24/pages/20/And more money would be saved too, because pet projects of the lunatics like the administrative costs associated with the separatists trying to ram through the perverts charter would be scrapped. |
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Post by Dan Dare on Oct 4, 2023 11:53:12 GMT
Good find.
Plenty of low-hanging fruit here just ready for the chop.
Like £35.1 million for 'External Affairs'. These maniacs apparently believe that Scotland is an actual country with a 'portfolio engagement' to "[R]emain committed to being a good global citizen and to playing our part in tackling global challenges, including climate change, poverty, injustice and inequality."
What rot.
What else can we find?
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Post by Dan Dare on Oct 4, 2023 12:08:50 GMT
The whole shebang is sucking up almost £60 billion in public funds. How much of that is waste and duplication of functions that are already delivered at the national level? My guess is probably close to 50% or more, the cost of devolution and creation of a completely unnecessary extra layer of government and bureaucracy.
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Post by morayloon on Oct 4, 2023 12:45:22 GMT
The whole shebang is sucking up almost £60 billion in public funds. How much of that is waste and duplication of functions that are already delivered at the national level? My guess is probably close to 50% or more, the cost of devolution and creation of a completely unnecessary extra layer of government and bureaucracy. We provide the exchequer with much more than is returned. Scotland is a Nation. The UK is not a Nation, it is a State comprising 4 Nations (5 if Cornwall is included) It is for the Scots to decide if their Parliament is "a completely unnecessary extra layer of government and bureaucracy." So far there is no sign (8% maybe) that people are disgruntled with Holyrood per se |
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Post by morayloon on Oct 4, 2023 12:48:47 GMT
Like £35.1 million for 'External Affairs'. These maniacs apparently believe that Scotland is an actual country with a 'portfolio engagement' to "[R]emain committed to being a good global citizen and to playing our part in tackling global challenges, including climate change, poverty, injustice and inequality." Scotland receives money from the exchequer. Money our country has provided to the exchequer through taxation. It is up to the Scottish Government how that money is spent |
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Post by jonksy on Oct 4, 2023 12:55:41 GMT
Like £35.1 million for 'External Affairs'. These maniacs apparently believe that Scotland is an actual country with a 'portfolio engagement' to "[R]emain committed to being a good global citizen and to playing our part in tackling global challenges, including climate change, poverty, injustice and inequality." Scotland receives money from the exchequer. Money our country has provided to the exchequer through taxation. It is up to the Scottish Government how that money is spentSo they can piss it up the wall fellow Brit. Hows the ferries doing BTW? |
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Post by Vinny on Oct 4, 2023 13:36:52 GMT
The whole shebang is sucking up almost £60 billion in public funds. How much of that is waste and duplication of functions that are already delivered at the national level? My guess is probably close to 50% or more, the cost of devolution and creation of a completely unnecessary extra layer of government and bureaucracy. Exactly, best to scrap devolution. |
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Post by morayloon on Oct 4, 2023 15:18:01 GMT
Scotland receives money from the exchequer. Money our country has provided to the exchequer through taxation. It is up to the Scottish Government how that money is spentSo they can piss it up the wall fellow Brit. Hows the ferries doing BTW? The ferry problem is nothing when compared to HS2. At least the work on the ferries will be completed, the same can't be said for HS2. Leeds & Manchester were the destinations with a possible extension into Scotland. Now it will go no further than Birmingham. Billions of money squandered. Money that could have been spent on the NHS. Add to HS2 the Crossrail project which came in massively over budget and way past its original completion date Concentrate on your own back yard! |
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Post by Vinny on Oct 4, 2023 15:31:55 GMT
End duplication.
End devolution.
The Caledonian MacBrayne ferry farce is a farce.
And the SNATs are the cause of that farce.
HS2 was a load of bollocks.
The HS2 farce is now ending.
The Caledonian MacBrayne farce continues because the SNATs are too daft to do anything about it.
Hundreds of millions already wasted.
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Post by Vinny on Oct 4, 2023 15:48:16 GMT
Just think of all the cancer patients who could be treated if money wasn't frittered away on unnecessary duplication of government.
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Post by Dan Dare on Oct 4, 2023 16:45:40 GMT
The whole shebang is sucking up almost £60 billion in public funds. How much of that is waste and duplication of functions that are already delivered at the national level? My guess is probably close to 50% or more, the cost of devolution and creation of a completely unnecessary extra layer of government and bureaucracy. We provide the exchequer with much more than is returned. Scotland is a Nation. The UK is not a Nation, it is a State comprising 4 Nations (5 if Cornwall is included) It is for the Scots to decide if their Parliament is "a completely unnecessary extra layer of government and bureaucracy." So far there is no sign (8% maybe) that people are disgruntled with Holyrood per se The Scots only have such a say because of shameless pandering by the Blairites and successive governments who have probably judged it's more trouble than it's worth to put a stop to these antics. Making so much money over to what is a glorified parish council is bound to give them delusions of grandeur and encourage aspirations of taking on the trappings of a real government, such as 'External Affairs'.
Why on earth does Scotland need e.g. a 'Cabinet Secretary' for the NHS and all the attendant bureaucratic apparatus when there is already a Secretary of State for Health in Westminster with a budget ten times as much as his Scottish 'equivalent. They could probably absorb the functions of the Scottish health 'ministry' without even a ripple.
Sheer extravagance and waste.
If a sacred cow like HS2 can be led to the slaughter why not 'devolution'. It's had its day and is well past its sell-by date.
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Post by Dan Dare on Oct 4, 2023 17:21:06 GMT
The Scottish Government budget for operation of the Health and Social Care ‘portfolio’ is £110 million in FY 2023/24, an uplift of 29% from the plague year 2021.
The uppermost layer of the bureaucratic substructure includes the following ‘Directorates’ whose head apparatchiks seem to earn between £150K and 220K each. NHS England already includes all these functions so why do they need to be replicated for what is by comparison a very miniature operation in Scotland? Chief Medical Officer - Chief Medical Officer: Sir Gregor Smith Chief Nursing Officer - Chief Nursing Officer: Professor Amanda Croft COVID Public Health Directorate - Director: Richard Foggo Digital Health and Care Directorate - Interim Director: Jonathan Cameron Health Finance, Corporate Governance and Value Directorate - Director: Richard McCallum Health Performance and Delivery Directorate - Chief Performance Officer, NHS Scotland and Director of Delivery and Resilience: John Connaghan Health Workforce Directorate - Director: Gillian Russell Healthcare Quality and Improvement Directorate - Interim Director: Linda Pollock and National Clinical Director: Professor Jason Leitch Mental Health and Social Care Directorate - Director: Donna Bell Population Health Directorate - Interim Director: Michael Kellet Primary Care Directorate - Director: Aidan Grisewood Test and Protect - Director: Christine McLaughlin Vaccine Strategy and Policy - Director: Stephen Gallagher In addition there are six chief professional officers, again highly renumerated doppelgänger of identical positions in England. Why? Cui bono? Chief Dental Officer – Tom Ferris Chief Health Professions Officer – Carolyn McDonald Chief Medical Officer – Dr Gregor Smith Chief Nursing Officer – Professor Amanda Croft Chief Pharmaceutical Officer - Professor Alison Strath Chief Scientist (Health) – Professor David Crossman |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2023 18:36:39 GMT
We provide the exchequer with much more than is returned. Scotland is a Nation. The UK is not a Nation, it is a State comprising 4 Nations (5 if Cornwall is included) It is for the Scots to decide if their Parliament is "a completely unnecessary extra layer of government and bureaucracy." So far there is no sign (8% maybe) that people are disgruntled with Holyrood per se The Scots only have such a say because of shameless pandering by the Blairites and successive governments who have probably judged it's more trouble than it's worth to put a stop to these antics. Making so much money over to what is a glorified parish council is bound to give them delusions of grandeur and encourage aspirations of taking on the trappings of a real government, such as 'External Affairs'.
Why on earth does Scotland need e.g. a 'Cabinet Secretary' for the NHS and all the attendant bureaucratic apparatus when there is already a Secretary of State for Health in Westminster with a budget ten times as much as his Scottish 'equivalent. They could probably absorb the functions of the Scottish health 'ministry' without even a ripple.
Sheer extravagance and waste.
If a sacred cow like HS2 can be led to the slaughter why not 'devolution'. It's had its day and is well past its sell-by date.
I can't find a thing wrong with this post. I used to be a little more supportive, but since then they have shown they're just a pack of BSers licking the same ring as the rest of the establishment.
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Post by morayloon on Oct 4, 2023 22:15:06 GMT
We provide the exchequer with much more than is returned. Scotland is a Nation. The UK is not a Nation, it is a State comprising 4 Nations (5 if Cornwall is included) It is for the Scots to decide if their Parliament is "a completely unnecessary extra layer of government and bureaucracy." So far there is no sign (8% maybe) that people are disgruntled with Holyrood per se The Scots only have such a say because of shameless pandering by the Blairites and successive governments who have probably judged it's more trouble than it's worth to put a stop to these antics. Making so much money over to what is a glorified parish council is bound to give them delusions of grandeur and encourage aspirations of taking on the trappings of a real government, such as 'External Affairs'.
Why on earth does Scotland need e.g. a 'Cabinet Secretary' for the NHS and all the attendant bureaucratic apparatus when there is already a Secretary of State for Health in Westminster with a budget ten times as much as his Scottish 'equivalent. They could probably absorb the functions of the Scottish health 'ministry' without even a ripple.
Sheer extravagance and waste.
If a sacred cow like HS2 can be led to the slaughter why not 'devolution'. It's had its day and is well past its sell-by date.
Don't you know that all this 'duplication' was happening before devolution? The Scottish office ran all the areas that are currently devolved. However, we were too often being run by a party Scots didn't vote for. Devolution only meant that those areas were under the control of a party Scots did vote for. There were a few ministers of state and a raft of civil servants looking after the various Scottish affairs prior to 1999. Devolution made little change to that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Office#You are also unaware, it seems, that Scotland's NHS was set up as a separate entity to NHS England. There no NHS UK! Who are you to decide what is good for Scotland? It is the Scottish electorate who will decide and there has been not a whiff of any surge in feelings that we should return to Direct Rule. In 2022 only 8% wanted an end to devolution |
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Post by Vinny on Oct 5, 2023 1:58:44 GMT
We pay taxes which are squandered on expensive and needless devolution.
Scotland is an artificial construct.
Abolish devolution and Scotland.
We are all British.
Devolution is a waste of money that takes taxes away from frontline services and lines the wallets of the greedy self serving SNP. Abolish devolution and abolish Scotland. Direct rule. One legal system for all.
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