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Originally Posted by jfman
The same could be said for all forms of taxation. Scotland’s oil etc.
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Err, no - the UK is a unitary nation state. The money is paid by every citizen to a government which is exclusively accountable at the ballot box to the entire British electorate and then is distributed as required, again by the government which is accountable to us, and only to us. Despite loud protestations from Scottish nationalists, theirs is a minority view and most people in Scotland are comfortable that this is the case and should remain so.
The European Union, despite its ambitions, is not a unitary nation state and once we have paid our contribution we have extremely limited control over the institutions that spend it.
The two situations are as different as chalk and cheese and nobody with any kind of grasp of the reality here could possibly equate them.