Friday, 24 December 2010

Scotland, what is it good for ?

..bar haggis, and Kenny Dalglish

I just don't get this devolution thing.
As I see it, we in England, allow Scottish MPs to come down to Parliament and vote on all sorts of crap that affects us, especially tax, service cuts, budgets and nasty stuff like that. They then piss off to Scotland, where English MPs can't go to vote, and repeal just about every nasty thing the English parliament just agreed, so it doesn't apply to Scots.
They then allow free "everything"....(prescriptions and university spring immediately to mind), and use nationally collected (i.e. English) taxes to help fund it...and the Welsh are getting in on the act too.
Am I missing something here, or is someone taking the slap.
And, despite being in the EEC, only English students are exempt from free university places.
If you're Belgian, no worries.
There is an answer.
If every English student simply told the Scottish universities where to stick their courses, they'd only have non EEC income to help fund them.
Anyway bar St Andrews, which is very pretty, but bloody cold, the rest are dumps.....I know, I've played football at all of them...Stirling is the ugliest and Aberdeen is just effing freezing.
How about rebuilding Hadrians wall a lot bigger, and let the Scots try to fund all that by taxing just themselves. That gas won't last for ever, although Salmond seems to be a likely natural reserve for some years to come. Now there is a pillock.

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