Scottish Subsidy £3bn too high

According to the Sunday Times, North Britain receives £3bn per year more in subsidies from the English taxpayer than it actually needs.

Boris Johnson has called for the Ignorant Jock to replace the Barnett Formula with something fair. The Barnett Formula ensures that North Britain, West Britain and North West Britain automatically receive more public spending thank the English get and significantly more than they contribute to the Treasury.

Alex Salmond, the leader of the SNP, immediately rubbished the report claiming that North Britain subsidises the rest of the UK because of North Sea oil revenues. The revenues in question were £7.3bn last year whilst the subsidy paid to North Britain in the same period was £11.3bn leaving a net subsidy of £4bn. It seems the extra money they spend on education in North Britain hasn't been used for decent maths lessons although Alex Salmond did go to school during the dark days of English imperialistic oppression and was probably forced to do hard labour for the English barons instead of learning.

One thing the SNP fail to mention when talking about "oor oil" is that, until relatively recently, a large proportion of North British oil was, in fact, English oil. The maritime border was moved by the British government from its correct position in accordance with international convention which is an extension of the land border to a position parallel from the mainland meaning that the maritime border no longer pointed upwards on both the east and west coast and incorporated English north sea oil and gas into North British territorial waters. They also fail to mention that revenues from English oil and gas (it's not just found in the North Sea) are also paid straight into the British treasury the same as for North British oil and gas.

Update:
It has been brought to my attention that this story was only in the North British edition of the Sunday Times. Why? This is plainly of very great interest to the English, why wouldn't they publish this story in the English edition of the newspaper?