| The SNP Budget Fiasco 11:39 - Dec 4 with 444 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
Plenty of coverage, but at the heart of the problem is;
Devolved social security spending has jumped from £192m in 2018/19 to £5.1bn in 2023/24, according to the Fraser of Allander Institute. |  |
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| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 14:44 - Dec 4 with 376 views | Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
If that figure is accurate it’s absolutely insane. |  |
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| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 14:54 - Dec 4 with 369 views | Whiterockin |
Good job that they are not devolved in Wales, Westminster just keeps paying the bill. |  | | |
| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 15:57 - Dec 4 with 338 views | majorraglan |
Westminster has devolved big parts of the social security budget from London to Scotland, it’s not a case of the budget going up by £5bn in 5 years. They said, the amount spent on social security has gone up across the UK. [Post edited 4 Dec 15:58]
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| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 16:23 - Dec 4 with 301 views | pencoedjack |
I see they have scrapped the two-child benefit cap. |  | | |
| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 17:17 - Dec 4 with 250 views | Kilkennyjack |
The uk national debt is today
The total amount the uk government owes is called the national debt. It is currently about £2.8 trillion - or £2,800,000,000,000.
Scotland and Wales need out of this basket case economy. |  |
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| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 17:25 - Dec 4 with 234 views | raynor94 |
| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 17:17 - Dec 4 by Kilkennyjack |
The uk national debt is today
The total amount the uk government owes is called the national debt. It is currently about £2.8 trillion - or £2,800,000,000,000.
Scotland and Wales need out of this basket case economy. |
The irony in your last paragraph is overwhelming.
Remind us again how these 2 nations NHS are doing |  |
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| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 17:27 - Dec 4 with 227 views | Whiterockin |
| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 17:17 - Dec 4 by Kilkennyjack |
The uk national debt is today
The total amount the uk government owes is called the national debt. It is currently about £2.8 trillion - or £2,800,000,000,000.
Scotland and Wales need out of this basket case economy. |
Then surely we would have to pay our share. | | | |
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| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 19:15 - Dec 4 with 162 views | majorraglan |
| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 16:23 - Dec 4 by pencoedjack |
I see they have scrapped the two-child benefit cap. |
The decision to lift it is a decision for Scotland, but if I were Starmer I’d ensure no extra resources were provided to them and I’d tell the SNP it’s your call, but you have to fund it from your existing budget. | | | |
| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 19:41 - Dec 4 with 141 views | SullutaCreturned |
| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 17:27 - Dec 4 by Whiterockin |
Then surely we would have to pay our share. |
Yep, we surely would and seeing as how, officially, we are running at a deficit, just how would we manage that?
We are approx 15% of the Uk or around 420 billion, we'd have to borrow that (and who would lend to us? Then on top of that we'd have to borrow the money to keep the country running. The Senedd budget is 23 billion and they say it's not enough, hiow much of that goes to service a debt of 420 billion, just on the interest?
Other opinions are available obviously and knowing which side of the argument is right is next to impossible unless we go indy and enough of us (currently) are indy sceptics to keep the status quo in place. | | | |
| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 21:13 - Dec 4 with 107 views | JACKMANANDBOY |
| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 19:41 - Dec 4 by SullutaCreturned |
Yep, we surely would and seeing as how, officially, we are running at a deficit, just how would we manage that?
We are approx 15% of the Uk or around 420 billion, we'd have to borrow that (and who would lend to us? Then on top of that we'd have to borrow the money to keep the country running. The Senedd budget is 23 billion and they say it's not enough, hiow much of that goes to service a debt of 420 billion, just on the interest?
Other opinions are available obviously and knowing which side of the argument is right is next to impossible unless we go indy and enough of us (currently) are indy sceptics to keep the status quo in place. |
Guilt yields are above 4 percent. Even at that rate the £420 billion would cost around 17 Billion. I've no idea what rate you'd have to pay to raise money in the circumstances you describe. | |
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| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 23:08 - Dec 4 with 46 views | felixstowe_jack |
| The SNP Budget Fiasco on 17:17 - Dec 4 by Kilkennyjack |
The uk national debt is today
The total amount the uk government owes is called the national debt. It is currently about £2.8 trillion - or £2,800,000,000,000.
Scotland and Wales need out of this basket case economy. |
Nation debt of France is 3.4 trillion . Are you seriously suggesting Wales and Scotland would be better of giving up their Sovereignty to EU and missing out on the huge UK subsidies they get under the Barnett formula. | |
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