No Stratto you haven’t been in NI especially at the moment.
But at least you are all getting £100
Funny but horrifying.
& bog rolls...
So is the british tax payer funding this, or your own 'people'?
Yes very poor choice of words.
No offence/harm intended. It didn't occur to me that the word 'people', or it's positioning would offend - I don't understand why it would do - maybe I'm missing something?
ETA: 'Have your people call my people' .
I love it !!! how can I copy so I can forward to my sister ?
This has happened a couple of times to a house in our village. It’s on the main through-road which is very narrow because it dates back to the horse and cart era.
I thought that all the devolved countries had more public spending per capita than England under the Barnett formula.
Stratobuddy, who do you blame? Well, it should be your own government. N.I, Scotland and Wales all get free prescriptions, why, because the funding they are allocated to run their own countries they decide to do that. This has been going on for years, lots of people in England just tick the box on the form saying they are entitled to free prescriptions as they cannot afford to pay £7+ for each item they need. Yes, there is the prepaid prescription, but it is £100+ for the year. The four monthly one if added up costs more over the year £40 something if I remember. I would have to go check the exact price.
But it is long.
Bois Bear, here is the intro from the Barnett Formula. You can wade through the rest if you chose?
Number 7386, 21 April 2021 4 1.The formula1.1IntroductionThe devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland receive grants from the UK Government, which fund much of their spending. The Barnett formula determines how the largest of these grants – the block grants – change from one year to the next. The Barnett formula aims to give each country the same pounds-per-person change in funding as the change in funding for comparable government services in England.1 For instance if the funding for education in England increases by the equivalent of £100 per person, the devolved administrations’ block grants will increase by £100 per person. In general, if a service is devolved it is considered to be comparable. The devolved administrations can spend the Barnett-formula-determined block grant as they wish. If block grants increase because education spending has increased in England, the devolved administrations do not have to spend the additional money on education. The formula is mainly used at spending reviews, where UK Government departments’ budgets are set. The formula uses the change in UK Government departments’ budgets to calculate the annual change in the devolved administrations’ budgets. The UK Government may change departments’ budgets outside of the spending review, perhaps at other fiscal events such as the Budget. If this happens the Barnett formula is again used to calculate changes to the block grant, but the formula is applied to the individual spending programme rather than at the department level.
It says the formula aims to get each people in which ever country the same amount pound per head for all four.
I don't know how you can copy it from here, the usual methods don't seem to work.
I blame the English, the only one of the 4 nations without their own "parliament" and who just accept the worst of everything.
That just shows, how much England are willing to spend compared to the others. N.I. is actually the size of North Yorkshire, so we are willing to spend more on the population. Scotland is large not quite the size of England but they are spending more on their population too.
I'd like to know what I get for £9,296! In fact I'd like to be given that to spend it my way, there's a huge number of public spending projects that I don't agree with & if I had an MP with a brain cell I'd write to her & demand my money. As it is I'm still waiting for the useless lot at Environment to answer my question about the effect these evil, cruel & MADE IN CHINA disposable masks are having on pets & wildlife when discarded & what's going to be done to deal with the issue.
