British Government for sale !!!

Same could be said for Scottish tuition fees and prescriptions being free to be fair.

If they were not subsidised we could pay nurses better.

The wider point is politics is full of bribes to small groups. It does not make this right, but it is hardly new ground being broken

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 13 hours, 58 minutes ago
London has been relying on 'Scottish' oil for decades.
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Good one

Same could be said for Scottish tuition fees and prescriptions being free to be fair.
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No, all devolved governments/assemblies get their money, they choose how they spend it, this £1b is extra money, aka a bribe.
Internal Tory party politics is dividing this country in a way I've never experienced before, unfairly spending the public purse to pursue their own lust for power.

Wider point is where has it come from? The rest of the country is enduring pay freezes and cuts to social and civil services. Does Scotland, Wales, London and Manchester not deserve a £billion to improve its infrastructure and local services?

As a side point I have no issue with more money going to NI. Every part of the UK deserves and needs extra funding.

The issue is that this extra billion will be taken from those who can least afford it while the same tax dodgers (the richest in society) are given further tax breaks.

comment by Always NPE - 1,000,002 (U20804)
posted 8 hours, 25 minutes ago
every policy is a bribe ffs. including corbyn with tuition fees.
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Weird way of seeing things... Considering that government expenditure comes in one or another from tax, I doubt you could claim it's a bribe. So over the course of time, it's paid by people in one way or another.

Likewise, with that logic a tax break is a bribe, but I don't see how you could claim tax break is necessarily a bribe either.

Apparently no Barnett Formula money for Scotland and Wales neither. Could the Tories be more blatant?

This is the price we pay for a hung parliament and a minority government I am afraid.

With a more even balance, a coalition is not necessarily a bad thing.

If Labour had had another 20 seats and had to govern this way, I expect Plaid, ScotNats and anyone else involved would want a slice of the pie.

Ledley

Maybe true maybe not, the opposition parties are all anti austerity, but regardless, it poses the question about the purpose of years of cuts and hard-edge austerity, all the savings made then the 'magic money tree' is used to spend millions on an unnecessary election and a billion on a political deal, with the main party of an area of the UK that is already disproportionately subsidised and that is already accused of financial incompetence in regard to the public purse.

The only balance in this arrangement (not coalition) is with the right wing of the Tory party and the religious zealots in the DUP, equally barmy.

I do not agree with it myself Hec, but it is what it is and this is how the dice fell.

The LibDems got a big bung in 2010. They got a referendum to change our democratic process out of the coalition. Something there was no mandate for. The minor parties pound of flesh would be taken one way or another, and nobody can blame them.

Personally I think May should have handed her notice in, and when another leader was elected we should have gone to the polls again. Even if it meant Corbyn had a chance.

Just arguing the toss Ledley and agree about May resigning and <sigh> rerunning the election.

The Liberal referendum on AV was, arguably a democratic deal as opposed to a straight cash one, they were also in coalition government (for all the good it did them) and not just in a loose certain vote pact