It has just occurred to me that should the Jocks decide in their referendum that their huff has arrived so they should leave in it, there is an immediate and real saving for the rest of us to be had from day one.
The other good news of course is that the Labour Party would lose its 41 Scottish MPs and the Lib Dems their 6. Mr Miliband minor would find it much harder to get a parliamentary majority without a 40 plus seat head start. It might also do something to make the Lib Dems rue their failure to keep their promise to support boundary changes? It would also mean an instant resolution of The West Lothian Question. (see this article for a catch-up if you need one: http://tinyurl.com/p6ef8sk).
Personally I'm still looking for the answer to my “Mortimer Question” i.e.If every Scot you meet insists on telling you how passionately Scottish they are and how they are deeply wedded to their heritage, homeland and culture, why are they living and working here in the land of the hated Sassenach?
There are 59 Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies in Scotland. A Westminster MP is currently paid a salary of £66,396 English Pounds, so that’s £3,917,364 for all of them I've no idea what that will be in whatever currency they will end up using in Scotland should they secede, but then again neither does Alec Salmond (know what currency they will end up using that is). On top of this the 59 MPs claimed a total of £6,471,994 worth of expenses for 2011 which means the whole sorry lot costs us around £6.5 million per annum. An instant saving when they're no longer qualified to sit in Westminster.
The other good news of course is that the Labour Party would lose its 41 Scottish MPs and the Lib Dems their 6. Mr Miliband minor would find it much harder to get a parliamentary majority without a 40 plus seat head start. It might also do something to make the Lib Dems rue their failure to keep their promise to support boundary changes? It would also mean an instant resolution of The West Lothian Question. (see this article for a catch-up if you need one: http://tinyurl.com/p6ef8sk).
Personally I'm still looking for the answer to my “Mortimer Question” i.e.If every Scot you meet insists on telling you how passionately Scottish they are and how they are deeply wedded to their heritage, homeland and culture, why are they living and working here in the land of the hated Sassenach?
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