Will Scotland get any more than what is currently on the table

[Information Analyst]

And then the I.R.A. will get out theirs, and the another chapter in "The Troubles" will begin.

Both sides would have to acquire significant quanties of new arms in the first place.

 

[Parsman]

Not in the way you think. The UK national government would be paying for it, and Scotland would no longer be contributing.



You think a region of the UK would be able to charge rent to the UK government to site defence kit on its own (UK) crown land? Interesting.

Yorkshire is a region of the UK, or more specifically England. Scotland is not a "region" of the UK it is one of the Kingdoms united by the act of Union of 1707, one of the constituent nations of that Union. Even before devolution we maintained our own legal system, local government system, national church and national education system which were distinct and unique. We are very much NOT a region, and it is talk like that which inflames Scots to demand better recognition of this fact.

 

[Information Analyst]

Yorkshire is a region of the UK, or more specifically England. Scotland is not a "region" of the UK it is one of the Kingdoms united by the act of Union of 1707, one of the constituent nations of that Union. Even before devolution we maintained our own legal system, local government system, national church and national education system which were distinct and unique. We are very much NOT a region, and it is talk like that which inflames Scots to demand better recognition of this fact.

And it is when such "recognition" seems to imply a requirement for special treatment/concessions that raises eyebrows.

 

[Francesca R]

We are very much NOT a region, and it is talk like that which inflames Scots to demand better recognition of this fact.

Which is an amusingly silly hang-up that prevents reading what was meant.

 

[dudalb]

Both sides would have to acquire significant quanties of new arms in the first place.

You really think that would be a problem?

 

[Information Analyst]

You really think that would be a problem?

It's probably more of a problem than you seem to think, but just out of interest, where do you think they they will come from?

 

[funk de fino]

Because both of these can be viewed as a form of indirect taxation on consumption.

These projects can essentially be treated as a modified form of PFI, where the repayments to the contractor are made not directly by the government, but by the public (through their tolls paid to use the bridge or toll road). If these tolls were to, say, be abolished, the government would either have to come up with equivalent amount of money to pay to the contractors, or it would have to take these projects back into public ownership by buying the assets.

So in a very real sense, the payment of these tolls can be seen as a reduction in the burden of public spending, and thus an anti-austerity measure.

So we are in perpetual austerity then? Because Severn Bridge and M6 toll road are hardly relevant to current comparisons of UK and Scottish policies on spending