Irish president Higgins to make first state visit to Britain,in some quarters it may not go down so well but life is too short!! http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/19...higgins-to-make-first-state-visit-to-britain/ http://www.politics.ie/forum/curren...itain-april-first-irish-head-state-do-so.html
They can have Liverpool. No deal on North Wales though. I go there every couple of years and there's no way I'm messing about exchanging pounds for euros
Sure, you get one every year http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...-per-head-in-state-spending-than-English.html
I've always thought that the british PM should just call the PM of the republic and tell him he's handing it back - I suspect the ones who would not like it one little bit would not necessarily be British......
Money flows south from Scotland to London and we get a share of it back. We put in more per head than we get back.
I've seen a few different arguments for this, with Unionists countering with a load of stats which dispute that Scotland puts more in. The one stat I do know is that the average wage in Scotland is lower than in England, so with less income tax per head (and presumably less VAT) I can only guess the difference (if true) is made up from taxing the likes of Oil, or corporation profits. Anyway, even if it were true that Scotland takes more from England than it gives back, living off another country should hardly be a long term aspiration.
Aye, the Irish are quite embarrassed about needing a bail out (and they were very much forced into it by other European countries, see here http://www.not606.com/showthread.ph...f-the-people?p=5636062&viewfull=1#post5636062) - Scottish Unionists are stating dependence on other countries as the case for staying in the Union...
