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Listed below are comments made by elvisbishop between Wednesday, 7th May 2008 and Thursday, 14th August 2008.

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Express your inner Geek 5:38pm on 14 Aug 2008
They should have id cards on cords around their necks preferably with IBM or UNIX logos denoting that they've attended some seminar... all the ultra geeks in my office wear them like battle honours.
Brownspeak made simple 9:14pm on 07 May 2008
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figures show that since 1980 identifiable spending on Scotland has been 10.2 per cent of expenditure in Britain, but that revenues raised in Scotland have averaged 9.1 per cent of the British total. In recent years Scotland’s advantage has narrowed, with spending on the rest of Britain, particularly in England, growing at a faster rate.

Scots received more than £3,000 a head on welfare and benefits in 2004-05, 45 per cent more than the British average of £2,072.

Identifiable spending on health was £1,513 a head in Scotland, 10.5 per cent more than the British average of £1,369.

Spending on education and training was £1,160 a head in Scotland, 6 per cent more than the British average of £1,093.

In enterprise and economic development spending per head was £123, 12 per cent above the British average of £109 a head.

£11.3bn: The extra amount that the Government spent in Scotland in addition to the money it raised there

Source: Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland 2004-05

still think you'll be ok?

btw, there's no confusion over the nationality of the royal family... they're germans!
Brownspeak made simple 7:47pm on 07 May 2008 scotland subsidising England! Get your facts right mate...

The Government spent £6,361 a head in England, compared with £8,216 in Northern Ireland, £7,597 in Scotland and £7,248 in Wales. Identifiable expenditure for England as a whole amounted to £318.6 billion, or 81 per cent of the British total, compared with £38.5 billion in Scotland (9.8 per cent), £21.4 billion in Wales (5.4 per cent) and £14 billion in Northern Ireland (3.6 per cent).

The figures, published yesterday in Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland 2004-05, provoked anger from English MPs and fuelled an anti-Scottish backlash.

David Maclean, the Conservatives’ former Chief Whip and MP for Penrith and the Border, said: “The Government has got to address this because it is feeding the destruction of the United Kingdom.

“Not only have we got an unbalanced Parliament in Westminster, with Scottish MPs having more rights than English MPs, we are having legislation foisted on England with the votes of Scottish MPs. We are getting fundamentally greater expenditure on people in Scotland, which is aggravating rural poverty in England.

...without the English taxpayers to support scotland you can say bye bye to free education and prescriptions.

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