Bliar in Meltdown?

[JackRyan]

Midlothian Question

I would say the biggest problem for the Tories is the fact they actually won the last election (in England), because our Welsh & Scottish friends get to vote for their own as well as our MPs. These are the same regions of the UK that "receive higher levels of public spending than former communist countries";

We should be sickened that England is being governed by an unelected power which is transferring funds to its bordering neighbours... Oh and guess what, if an English student applies to a Scottish university he/she'll pay £3000 fees, whilst a student from ANY OTHER EU COUNTRY will pay the lower, Scottish, rate ~ £1000. Even though the university is being funded mainly through English taxation!

The Sunday Times May 28, 2006 Britain's northern 'soviets' swell on Brown handouts

The “sovietisation” of parts of Britain as a result of Brown’s huge increases in public spending looks even more dramatic when the figures are adjusted for comparison with other countries. On this basis, public spending is equivalent to 76.2% of the size of the Northern Ireland economy this year, 66.2% in Wales, 64.9% in the northeast, 57.7% in Scotland and 56.1% in the northwest.
This compares with 56.1% in high-spending Sweden, 54.1% in France, 51.9% in former communist Hungary, 51.5% in Denmark, 46% in Germany, 42.6% in the Czech Republic, 41.2% in Poland and 36.3% in Slovakia.
Sir Digby Jones, director- general of the CBI, the employers’ organisation, said that he was increasingly concerned about the “crowding out” of the private sector by a rapidly expanding public sector. “I’m very, very worried about this,” he said. “The private sector is responsible for around 62% of GDP in China — a communist, totalitarian regime.”

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