GERS: or, A Wayward Exercise in the Capricious http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2016/08/24/gers-or-a-wayward-exercise-in-the-capricious/ … via @bellacaledonia
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uk has a deficit too? So do most countries? Just we uniquely have this weird situ where we are limited by how to deal
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This is the Scottish Government's statisticians. Case for indy built on same figures in '14
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so what, the size of the Scottish deficit is determined by Westminster spending we would not waste as much money
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eh? So what money are the Scottish Government "wasting" right now then?
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paying our share of Trident, bombing Syria, foreign office, overseas aid, crumbling Westminster to name but a few.
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= £15bn per year? I don't think so. You believe iScotland shouldn't spend money on overseas aid?
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foreign aid in UK is less to help people and more to do with political aims and lining ex pats and consultancies pockets
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I don't agree. Either way, it's not what I asked you. Do you believe iScotland should have no foreign aid?
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can u explain the deficit to me? How did we come about having one without the equivalent borrowing powers? Bank bail out? :(
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it came about because we are spending more than we raise. And we can do that because we benefit from being in Barnett.
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u know I don't think Barnett is all that great ;)
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well if we didn't have it, we'd have £15bn to find this year...
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I don't wanna argue over Gers cos I hate it. I don't think the methodology is the most efficient or accurate.
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what's wrong with it?
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when all it is evidence of is how poor Scotland's finances are managed whilst part of the union.
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if it's not a true picture of where we'd be on independence, someone better tell us the secret to additional £15bn revenue.
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