Originally Posted by
BFS watcher
What about the £7 billion they got from UK taxpayers (this equates to £1600 for every Southerner) or the US$9M Aer Lingus
7 billion pounds is how much Westminster has to subsidise NI by every 70 weeks or so. UK is ROI's largest trading partner, ROI is UK's 5th largest, 2 billion a week in trade, it was in UK's interest to stabilise ROI economy as much as possible.
And the media were reporting EI could get up to 19 million dollars for Hartford depending on performance.
Now let's stop the Willy waving eh? I personally couldn't care less if your government are spending that much subsidising UA, I just hope you're getting value for money