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Post by ProVeritas on Aug 15, 2024 17:03:43 GMT
The Commons and the Lords do mishandle things, but all of us are equally able to do our bit to influence the Commons, meet MPs, talk to them and also to vote against them. English money squandered in Scotland is a matter English taxpayers have no say on. English money squandered in Wales or Northern Ireland is a matter English taxpayers have no say on.Abolish devolution. Have ONE government for all of us and have it proportionally representative and fair. Have each region of the UK means tested for public spending, and give the bits that need the most funding exactly what they need. I don't get to decide where my taxes are spent. I'd love to make sure no tax revenues were ever used for subsidies or tax breaks for multinational companies who avoid taxation and have annual turnovers in the £Billions. Please tell me how to do that. All The Best
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Post by Vinny on Aug 15, 2024 17:10:34 GMT
I'd love to avoid giving tax breaks to multi nationals too.
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Post by ProVeritas on Aug 15, 2024 17:15:54 GMT
I'd love to avoid giving tax breaks to multi nationals too. But we HAVE NO SAY over that. So by your criteria above we should dissolve Westminster. All The Best
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Post by Vinny on Aug 15, 2024 17:26:18 GMT
I do have a say I can talk to my MP and vote for or against my MP.
I cannot vote against an AM or an MLA without moving to Wales or Northern Ireland.
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Post by Pacifico on Aug 15, 2024 17:44:02 GMT
If Scotland is not going to sell it's energy to England what are you intending to do with it? We aren't selling energy to England. I can assure you that we are not getting energy for free. I doubt that very much - I have just compared my address with a random one in Scotland (Aberdeen) and for the same tariff on SO Energy I would pay a higher standing charge. Nonsense - even the Scottish Government admit that energy exports to the rest of the UK reached £4 Billion in 2022.
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Post by Vinny on Aug 16, 2024 9:23:47 GMT
There is no English national grid only a UK national grid which all UK generated electricity goes into and UK generated electricity is supplied from. Our country, is the UK. Abolish devolution.
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Post by ProVeritas on Aug 16, 2024 16:15:51 GMT
There is no English national grid only a UK national grid which all UK generated electricity goes into and UK generated electricity is supplied from. Our country, is the UK. Abolish devolution. May I ask, how did you vote regarding Brexit? All The Best
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Post by Vinny on Aug 16, 2024 22:51:13 GMT
As you already know, I voted leave because the EU wasn't reformed. The CAP, the CFP, the Common External Tariff, it doesn't work, sadly. It needs reforms.
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Post by ProVeritas on Aug 17, 2024 15:46:03 GMT
As you already know, I voted leave because the EU wasn't reformed. The CAP, the CFP, the Common External Tariff, it doesn't work, sadly. It needs reforms. So, if it is OK for the UK to leave the European Union, why is it not OK for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to leave the Union of Great Britain & Northern Ireland? Surely there is a rather large, and obvious, double-standard there. Did not the UK insist on certain "Devolved Powers" for Westminster? All The Best
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Post by Vinny on Aug 17, 2024 15:54:34 GMT
David Cameron promised to reform the EU and hold a referendum on whether to stay in a reformed EU.
Scotland had a referendum on whether to stay in the UK.
Remoaning racists lost both referendums.
Putin racism to bed. Abolish devolution. Abolish the Barnett formula. Have all taxpayers equally involved in politics equally represented under PR and replace the Lords with an elected senate.
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Post by ProVeritas on Aug 17, 2024 16:00:15 GMT
David Cameron promised to reform the EU and hold a referendum on whether to stay in a reformed EU. Scotland had a referendum on whether to stay in the UK. Remoaning racists lost both referendums. Putin racism to bed. Abolish devolution. Abolish the Barnett formula. Have all taxpayers equally involved in politics equally represented under PR and replace the Lords with an elected senate. So you'd force Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to remain in Union of Great Britain & Northern Ireland against their will? All The Best
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Post by Vinny on Aug 17, 2024 16:14:25 GMT
You'd force English taxpayers to fund dysfunctional devolution without a say? Why? Do you hate English people?
Btw I would hold a referendum in Northern Ireland on reunification of Ireland because Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are geographically parts of the same landmass.
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Post by morayloon on Aug 18, 2024 0:50:39 GMT
You'd force English taxpayers to fund dysfunctional devolution without a say? Why? Do you hate English people? Btw I would hold a referendum in Northern Ireland on reunification of Ireland because Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are geographically parts of the same landmass. That's just garbled nonsense. Par for the course. I agree on Irish unity. But, why is it ok for NI to have a referendum every seven years, but Scotland can't. It is now coming up to the 10th anniversary of Indyref. So much has happened since then, notably our being dragged out of the EU against our will!!!
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Post by happyjack on Aug 18, 2024 4:20:57 GMT
You'd force English taxpayers to fund dysfunctional devolution without a say? Why? Do you hate English people? Btw I would hold a referendum in Northern Ireland on reunification of Ireland because Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are geographically parts of the same landmass. That's just garbled nonsense. Par for the course. I agree on Irish unity. But, why is it ok for NI to have a referendum every seven years, but Scotland can't. It is now coming up to the 10th anniversary of Indyref. So much has happened since then, notably our being dragged out of the EU against our will!!! Once again, and in common with many Indy types, you display both your failure to grasp simple facts and your willingness (eagerness, even) to unquestioningly lap up whatever malicious misinformation the Indy grievance-mongering machine pumps out at you. It is not automatically ok for NI to have a re-unification referendum every 7 years nor, for that matter, is there any obligation to hold such a referendum every 7 years or at any other interval. That should be pretty obvious even to you given that whilst 25 years have elapsed since the signing of the GFA there has not been a single re-unification referendum. NI can only have a re-unification referendum if and when the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland considers that prevailing circumstances are such as to warrant one, following which a minimum of 7 years must elapse before the question can be put to the people of NI again. This is much more restrictive than Scotland’s situation where there is no stipulated minimum period between independence referenda which means, in theory, and unlike the situation in NI, we could hold an Indyref every 7 weeks or even every 7 days, nevermind every 7 years. And so what if it is coming up to 10 years since our indyref? Not only did the YES campaign, the SNP ScotGov and SNP leadership (and therefore the current “sleepy cuddles” Alba Party leader, of course) tell us that the 2014 referendum was a one opportunity / once in a lifetime / once in a generation event, but whilst much may have happened since then, the only happening that matters here (and therefore the only happening that would warrant another indyref) would be if there were to be sound indications of clear and sustained majority support for Scexit amongst the Scottish people. We are nowhere closer to that now than we were in 2014 (indeed, the recent GE results indicate quite the opposite tendency) so thankfully we are nowhere close to another damaging indyref or to imposing the devastating self-harm of independence upon ourselves.
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Post by Vinny on Aug 18, 2024 7:48:21 GMT
What are you talking about? Northern Ireland hasn't had a border referendum since the 1970's.
As for Scotland, English taxpayers subsidise devolution and are shit on by the SNATs. Abolish devolution. Great Britain is one country not four, fellow Brit.
Scrap the Barnett formula, means test instead. Fund the most deprived areas first and the most affluent areas last.
Scotland is very affluent, it doesn't need the Barnett formula subsidies. Directly control public spending from central government. Sack the devolved racists.
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