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Originally Posted by Bibio
so if the rest of the UK get block grants where was the deficit money spent?
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Where do you think the money in those block grants came from??
We've had decades of over spending by governments from all parties. But you don't get elected by promising £3.5 trillion cuts in public spending, or an extra thousand pounds a year of income tax. Those are the sort of measures which would be needed to balance the UK budget.
So unless we all want to pay our bills in full we're going to be stuck with the deficit for a very long time.
If Scotland were to become independent, IMO, the fairest way to distribute the national debt would be per-capita since everyone had the benefits. But I'm sure wee Krankie wouldn't be wanting any of it.
[Last year's budget deficit 3.51 trillion,
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/gover...ries/ruuw/pusf
UK tax payers around 30 million
https://assets.publishing.service.go.../Table_2.2.pdf
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