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Originally posted by stumason
Also, spending per capita should be equalised. Currently, Scotland (and every other region for that matter) get's over £2000/capita more than England. That's why Scotland can have free University and Wales and can have free prescriptions, but the English have to pay for it.
Why?
Can someone explain (in non Labour-speak - Looking at you Smink) why any of this is fair?
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
- Because when this stat is wheeled out it is always a case of not comparing like with like.
Scotland is a sparsely populated place and therefore large areas with few people cost more.
If you compare the sparsely populated areas of England the figure is little different.
Obviously low population rural areas require a lot more financial support 'from outside' than those areas of high population density.
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
Can someone explain (in non Labour-speak - Looking at you Smink) why any of this is fair?
- Well you might not agree with what I've said but I don't think that makes my wording particularly 'Labour-speak'.
If you'd like to let me know what that is so I can avoid it in future, I don't think I use too many odd turns of phrase or non-plain English?
Originally posted by stumason
I fail to see how Population denisty can affect per capita spending by as much as £2000 more, seeing as we're breaking down to the most basic of unit's, ie; a singular person. But I shall look into that none the less.
I know your a die-hard Labour fan and do spin some things exactly as Blair & Co do. I prefer cold hard facts, rather than Government opinion, which is invariably spun more than Charlottes Web....
Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
- It's to do with things like maintaining communications etc for much lower populace numbers etc.
It's things like, for instance, maintaining roads for many widely separated populations of under 20,000 over very many miles as opposed to much much larger populations very much closer together.
The roads cost the same but are much longer and there are far less people there to pay for them, hence the larger 'subsidy'.
Originally posted by Freedom ERP
Is it time to change the question?
Does the union still add value to England?
Originally posted by LeBombDiggity
"The Scots" didn't ask for union, not the everyday Scots in the street at least.