tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post7135567683382167886..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: AND WHAT DO THEY SAY OF THE BARNETT FORMULA?Munguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-10123012710540422702014-08-20T23:14:13.981+01:002014-08-20T23:14:13.981+01:00Or the drink... or both.
As John said. Mindboggli...Or the drink... or both.<br /><br />As John said. Mindbogglingly insane and to be ignored.<br /><br />I'd remove it, but, if people want to demonstrate their ignorance, I see no reason to stop them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-89450774267815204682014-08-20T23:12:00.829+01:002014-08-20T23:12:00.829+01:00LOL...LOL...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-56034137849047399052014-08-20T19:23:10.341+01:002014-08-20T19:23:10.341+01:00ANON 10.59.
If I were you I'd lay off the dru...ANON 10.59.<br /><br />If I were you I'd lay off the drugs, for a while.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-59316936596716911442014-08-20T16:24:03.429+01:002014-08-20T16:24:03.429+01:00NIKO.
For someone who has no dog in the fight,you...NIKO.<br /><br />For someone who has no dog in the fight,you do one hell of a lot of barkingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-1602583772534041332014-08-20T10:52:25.346+01:002014-08-20T10:52:25.346+01:00This is the guy's original post: 16hrs per wee...This is the guy's original post: 16hrs per week at basic, thats £403 (gross) per month, I would qualify for HB and CTB, but I would still pay £112 per month, leaving me just over £290, and thats without adding the travel costs of £10 per day if I was to use the bus (winter is coming), thats leaving me £210 a month to live with...at 24hrs per week it was just worth the hassle and effort, taking this job has made me poorer, by a large margin and pissed off my landlord, better together my ass.<br /><br />Thats a lad that is prepared to "get on his bike" and get work... any work, rather than be idle. That's what the state thinks of his efforts. I dare say the £39 breakfast man would still call him a skiver.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-8512924257790118462014-08-20T10:48:15.337+01:002014-08-20T10:48:15.337+01:00They don't think THAT far ahead Bruce.
And in...They don't think THAT far ahead Bruce.<br /><br />And in the long game, Ed Miliband doesn't care about Scotland except in the fact that it provides the money for the UK to continue playing the 19th century power that it was.... and therefore for people like him to play the international statesman. he can count on the Scottish Labour vote. Without it he'd have a job forming a government in the UK.<br /><br />I'll certainly be ashamed of Scots if they are stupid enough to be taken in by the British Empire stuff, and they find out, a bit too late that they are about to be peed on from a great height.<br /><br />I just read this comment on a facebook post of a friend of mine who has just managed to find work... part time, night shift, at a petrol station. He was pointing out that his wages are only JUST enough to survive on, he has to take his bike to work, regardless of the weather, because a bus fare is out of the question, and it's not a short ride. Given that the weather will get worse soon, he can expect to arrive at work soaking wet. <br /><br />This is what someone put up on his post: did you know that Britain has the second lowest industrial democracy out of 28 European countries...only Lithuania is worse. We have the second lowest rates of pay, third longest working hours and fewest holidays in Europe. Tax credits are a massive state subsidy to low pay corporations so they can pay their workers lower than the standard living wage.....taken from the Common Weal<br /><br />Proud to be British... Eh Niko?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-4599792915077379942014-08-20T10:34:45.990+01:002014-08-20T10:34:45.990+01:00What JnA said.
Don't spout racist nonsense on...What JnA said.<br /><br />Don't spout racist nonsense on this blog again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-61176234300236869042014-08-20T10:33:21.487+01:002014-08-20T10:33:21.487+01:00Yes, I doubt that Labour is dim enough to wish all...Yes, I doubt that Labour is dim enough to wish all this misery on itself. It's accepted that no one in Slab is the least bit appealing to the electorate. It accepts that, if the answer is no, it will lose the 2016 election and the SNP will be left to carry the can for the new regime imposed by Westminster, where Barnett is removed, and funding is provided on the basis of NEEDS, but the ability to vary income tax( (and ONLY income tax) is granted.<br /><br />Raising income tax without reducing VAT is a poison. Really except in a dire emergency it cannot be done. Westminster (or in short English MPs) will decide what is "needed", and what is needed will be what keeps them on the gravy train. Money spent in their constituencies; jobs created in their backyards.<br /><br />Scotland won't matter. The Tories and UKIP won't have seats here to defend. Labour will assume that no matter what happens it is safe in Scotland. Scotland will get almost none of the money...and yet we already know that the money is going to be pouring in from the North Sea and the Atlantic.<br /><br />God help us if we vote no.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-30145259369972448222014-08-20T10:26:23.301+01:002014-08-20T10:26:23.301+01:00Good piece from Eck there. I believe this. This is...Good piece from Eck there. I believe this. This is and has been since university, his dream. <br /><br />Of course he'd stand down, and (as much as it was in his power to do so) dissolve the SNP. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-5237956169169672252014-08-20T10:24:37.034+01:002014-08-20T10:24:37.034+01:00Of course you win Niko. You're going to live i...Of course you win Niko. You're going to live in Cyprus. The next round of cuts, agreed by Osborne and Balls won;t affect you. Yours won;t be one of the 50,000 jobs that will be cut in Scotland in the next year.<br /><br />If I were in the civil service I'd vote YES in a second. All the Civil service jobs that Thatcher created in Scotland to try to make up for all the jobs she wiped out, and we now get blamed for by people like Ruth Davidson, they are all at risk. And when (not if) the Barnett formula is ditched look out for another hundred thousand jobs going in the health and education services.<br /><br />If we vote no, look forward to being an even more unequal and impoverished region of greater England than we already are.<br /><br />But not in Cyprus of course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-4405427927492288492014-08-20T08:04:13.579+01:002014-08-20T08:04:13.579+01:00Tris
An interesting dilemma for the Scottish bran...Tris<br /><br />An interesting dilemma for the Scottish branch of liebour. As it appears they favour less money for the most impoverished areas of Scotland, their heartlands, it will be interesting to see them spin it. I don't think the usual it's the SNP fault line will work. But anyway as has been discussed before , if Scotland stupidly votes no it will be punished and laughed at the world over. I might even be ashamed to call myself Scottish when the response is ' your from the region that used to be a country or your from Northern England because you voted to be. <br /><br />BruceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-86693607651338826332014-08-20T06:54:23.643+01:002014-08-20T06:54:23.643+01:00Eh? What have you won? I'd stick to the poetry...Eh? What have you won? I'd stick to the poetry, or the quotes from the quote website, if I were you.<br />JimnArleneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-78224390542196743722014-08-20T06:49:50.047+01:002014-08-20T06:49:50.047+01:00Piss off, idiot troll.
JimnArlenePiss off, idiot troll.<br />JimnArleneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-64162273694159947232014-08-20T06:35:57.386+01:002014-08-20T06:35:57.386+01:00This has to be THE MOST mindbogglingly insane pos...This has to be THE MOST mindbogglingly insane post I think I have ever seen!<br />Not from around these here parts,<br />are you pilgrim?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08693495793453207077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-7800830580905934772014-08-19T22:59:53.961+01:002014-08-19T22:59:53.961+01:00The Barnett Formula is the politics of giving mone...The Barnett Formula is the politics of giving money to the whites by taking it from the blacks. It is racist, there is a direct relationship between the proportion of whites in a territory to the amount it gets, the more whites the more money, hence Northern Ireland with the highest proportion of whites gets the most money and England with by far the highest proportion of visible ethnic minorities gets by far the least. We cannot end racism in the UK without ending the Barnett Formula. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-65588502184613378692014-08-19T22:56:24.506+01:002014-08-19T22:56:24.506+01:00If there's a no vote the Barnett formula will ...If there's a no vote the Barnett formula will go. <br /><br />The only reason it's not been reformed is a fear of Scottish independence and if that's gone so goes Barnett.<br /><br />You can read it between the lines when people like Johann Lamont talk about the Scottish Parliament being more "accountable".<br /><br />What they actually mean is when Barnett goes down the tubes the Scottish Government is going to have to choose between raising income tax for Scots just to maintain services or cutting those services. A real Hobson's choice.<br /><br />It's also a fairly clear indication that Labour expect to lose the next Scottish Parliament even if it's a no vote.DougtheDughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02952281599715356995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-26733439574150013012014-08-19T22:40:15.175+01:002014-08-19T22:40:15.175+01:00Just for you Niko vote yes and you can get rid of ...Just for you Niko <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYouwFcNqs" rel="nofollow">vote yes and you can get rid of Salmond.</a>cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-72145898348234175732014-08-19T21:44:37.480+01:002014-08-19T21:44:37.480+01:00Oh well I win....Again its getting easier by the d...Oh well I win....Again its getting easier by the daynikonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-53048704848984980452014-08-19T21:24:04.463+01:002014-08-19T21:24:04.463+01:00Seriously scary stuff. They can't even undo it...Seriously scary stuff. They can't even undo it!!!<br /><br />So even if Labour wanted to (and I don't think they do) they cannot<br /><br />Vote to stay with the UK. Vote to get rid of the NHS and the Welfare state.<br /><br />Well people...don't say you weren't warned.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-55423052981721654492014-08-19T21:22:15.390+01:002014-08-19T21:22:15.390+01:00Nico, change the record, getting boring. Personall...Nico, change the record, getting boring. Personally, I'd tell Westminster to shove the pound, where the sun doesn't shine. But, as has been said, almost as often as you repeat your mantra, a short term currency union; would be beneficial to both parties in said currency union.<br />Tris, in answer to your question, we'd be f@#£%d.<br />JimnArleneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-41361588338102574012014-08-19T21:20:37.313+01:002014-08-19T21:20:37.313+01:00Oh Niko shut up.
It's all very well for you....Oh Niko shut up. <br /><br />It's all very well for you. You won't have to live in the "even more austerity" UK.<br /><br />We will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-8387452671338292592014-08-19T21:19:28.449+01:002014-08-19T21:19:28.449+01:00Well, as the Liberals, Tories and Labour want rid ...Well, as the Liberals, Tories and Labour want rid of it, and the English want rid of it... yes, it will go.<br /><br />Voting to stay with the UK is madness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-59003938347787834932014-08-19T21:18:29.704+01:002014-08-19T21:18:29.704+01:00Yes. Well get even less back form our even larger ...Yes. Well get even less back form our even larger contribution<br />.<br /><br />Deal?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-82172595464872887652014-08-19T20:58:15.184+01:002014-08-19T20:58:15.184+01:00Proper link.
Lucy Reynolds talks to Jill Mountfor...Proper link.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkTnCtg_Omk" rel="nofollow">Lucy Reynolds talks to Jill Mountford</a>cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-36085612424463924952014-08-19T20:55:53.858+01:002014-08-19T20:55:53.858+01:00"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkTnCtg_Omk&...<a href="" rel="nofollow">"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkTnCtg_Omk">Lucy Reynolds talks to Jill Mountford</a><br /><br />Labour laid the foundations of privatising the NHS through their PFI at 77% interest rates amongst other things. Now the ConDems have drilled the holes ready to put in the final screws and bury the public service altogether.cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.com