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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Given some of his more anachronistic views of the Scots, I'm not sure Old Boy would be permitted to travel north of Berwick. 
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Just replace "Scotland" with "the UK" and "English" with "European Union" and "our" with "their" and you will have the Brexit scenario neatly summed up. .  |
Seeing as the UK part-funded the EU, it's the other way around. The EU are the ones looking for money and everything else from the UK. The amount of money the EU is to lose from the UK is less than what Scotland currently gets from the UK.
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Net Fiscal Balance 2018-19
This is the difference between total revenue and total public sector expenditure including capital investment. The net fiscal balance:
- Including an illustrative geographic share of North Sea revenue, was a deficit of £12.6 billion (7.0% of GDP).
- Excluding North Sea revenue, was a deficit of £14.1 billion (8.5% of GDP).
- For the UK, was a deficit of £23.5 billion (1.1% of GDP).
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Incredible that more than half of the total UK deficit is down to Scotland.
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Originally Posted by jfman
England.
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How? As I said, they have access to English and EU markets. The UK has even had Scottish PMs, Blair and Brown. What restrictions are England placing on Scotland, that the Scottish government can't remove? And could any possible changes close the £12bn gap?