@Walter Hinteler,
Walter, those graphs are not showing the full picture, but even then they show that in no way is Scotland being victimised or treated as a poor relation in any way.
Here are some interesting figures from their very own Governmental website. Link below.
Snippet:-
"In 2012-13, the estimated current budget balance for the public sector in Scotland was a deficit of £14.2 billion (11.2% of GDP) excluding North Sea revenue, a deficit of £13.6 billion (10.6% of GDP) including a per capita share of North Sea revenue or a deficit of £8.6 billion (5.9% of GDP) including an illustrative geographical share of North Sea revenue....."
Scotland has a 5.3million population.
Therefore, if the £14.2billion deficit figure is taken, that equates to a subsidy of
£2679 per head.
But using the oil revenue spread across every UK head, Scotland's deficit would then equate to £13.6billion, which equates to
£2566 per head
Even if you use Salmond's warped logic, and say that every bit of oil revenue deemed to be in Scottish territory is then only shared out between the Scottish population, then the deficit is brought down to £8.6billion, which equates to
£1622 per head.
Using the set of figures where Scotland keeps every penny of its oil revenue, and which paints the best picture, the rest of the UK (let's face it, the English by and large.....seeing as we make up 91% of the UK) subsidised every man, woman and child in Scotland last year to the tune of £1622 each.
An ordinary family of four (two adults, two children) had £6488 more spent on them than an equivalent English family.
And they want more.
I just hope Salmond has a good yarn to tell the people in a year or two's time, when their newly independent non subsidised coffers start to run dry.
Link:
http://scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/03/7888
