! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.
Next time you open your pay slip and sigh at the amount of money you’ve handed over to the Tartan Taxman, have a think about who gets the benefit of your tax money. Is it you? Your family? Your neighbours? Not if you live in England it isn’t …
Of course, the reality is much worse than even these figures suggest. Money is vacuumed out of the English wallet and spirited away by many methods. My back of envelope guesstimate is that of the taxes raised in England around £50,000,000,000 per annum is NOT spent in England. As your table indicates, the Scots get a big chunk but a vast amount leaks away via the EU Tyranny and so forth. Some of the recipients are blood boilingly repulsive and include terrorist organisations.
I want to pass this on and on…
But where are the sources? Are these govt figures? Juse where does this come from?
Original figures are here http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/375/5A/cm6811_comp.pdf
The picture’s clickable – it points to Toque.
Ah gotcha thanks… was rather pissed last night 🙂
I was going to ask for the source too, and I’m not even pissed!