Comments by "ScottishRoss" (@ScottishRoss27) on "Boris Johnson sparks row, calling Scottish devolution a ‘disaster’" video.

  1. The people who live in Scotland are going to lose Devolution (Democracy in Scotland) if we stay in this 'Union', EVEL, English votes for English laws, introduced in 2015 by Cameron, turned the 'union' parliament into the English parliament
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  2. The centralised outdated incompetent Union is the probelm, last year the UK government took 40% of tax in Scotland. Time to move on from this union Scotland is charged 5x more than should for being in this 'Union' Scotland is 8% of the population and 40% of tax goes to the UK Total tax revenue. got back Cost of the Union 2019 65,3 38,3 £27b 40% https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/datasets/countryandregionalpublicsectorfinancesrevenuetables https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_budget https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/3/part/1/crossheading/the-scottish-consolidated-fund
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  3.  @chrisj9700  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum#Results Clause 46 of the UK Internal Market Bill gives the Tory Government powers over Scottish nhs, education, justice, transport, culture, sport, housing, & economic development, publicly owned assets such as Scottish Water, provision of heat, electricity, will be stolen by Westminster to no benefit to Scotland. Stealing our resources without paying. It is a direct attack on the people of Scotland and their power and their parliament, as endorsed by 74% in 1997 devolution referendum. The United Nations Charter placed the right of self-determination into the framework of international law. By virtue of that right any people can freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social development The Referendums Scotland Act 2020 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament which was passed by Parliament on 19 December 2019 In 1982, Canada made its final step toward full sovereignty. It became a completely independent country from Westminster In 1986, The Australia Act made Australia a completely independent nation from Westminster In 1986, New Zealand gained full independence from Westminster
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  4.  @Mister_Superfly  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsGjh6ul7mE
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  5.  @chrisj9700  Scotland is 8% of the UK population and the UK takes 40% of tax. 5x more than should. it should be 8% our pop share. Total tax revenue. got back Cost of the Union 2019 65,3 38,3 £27b 40% 2018 62,1 36 £26,1 42% 2017 59,9 34,7 £25,2 42% 2016 56,8 33,7 £23,1 42% https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/datasets/countryandregionalpublicsectorfinancesrevenuetables https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_budget West Midlands Region pop 5,9m Scotland 5,4m 2019 £58,7bn £65,3bn £6,6bn 10% bigger 2018 £56,3bn £62,1bn £5,8bn 9% 2017 £54,7bn £59,9bn £5,2bn 9% 2016 £51,5bn £56,8bn £5,3bn 9% Yorkshire region pop 5,4m Scotland 5,4m 2019 £55,8bn £65,3bn £9,5bn 15% bigger 2018 £53,9bn £62,1bn £8,2bn 14% 2017 £52,5bn £59,9bn £7,4bn 14% 2016 £49,5bn £56,8bn £7,3bn 13%
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  6.  @chrisj9700  Hs2, a train set between 2 cities in England, deemed 'UK' project, Scotlands 18,4% cost towards that £106b is £19,5 billion and rising for no benefit to Scotland. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hs2-railway-boris-johnson-cost-jobs-budget-construction-a9704706.html Northern Powerhouse Rail, In 2019, it was announced a new commission had been established to plan a new £6 billion city centre station in Liverpool to accommodate HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail Services. Scotlands 18,4% cost of that is £1,1 billion and rising, for no benefit to Scotland London Crossrail, deemed 'UK' project, The total estimated cost has risen to £18.7 billion as of August 2020. Originally planned to open in 2018, the project continues to be delayed. Scotlands 18,4% cost of that is £3,4 billion, for no benefit to Scotland. Trident costs £5 billion per year, 18,4% of that is £1 billion per year wasted. Trident renewal is estimated to cost £25 billion, 18,4% = £4,6 billion Bojo the clown's time as mayor of London, The Garden Bridge project was a proposal for a pedestrian bridge over the River Thames in London, England, By August 2016, the proposed cost of the bridge had risen to £253 million, from the original estimate of £60m. In 2017 The Garden Bridge Trust formally announced that it would be ending the project and that the Garden Bridge Trust itself would be wound up in accordance with the Companies Acts.The failed project cost £253m. Scotlands 18,4% cost of that incompetence was £46 million, for no benefit to Scotland.
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  7.  @chrisj9700  Scotland’s Natural Assets are valued at £273 billion, 34 per cent of the UK total. https://www.businessforscotland.com/scotland-is-one-of-the-worlds-most-naturally-wealthy-nations/ https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-natural-capital-ecosystem-service-accounts-2019/pages/8/ North West England GDP £207 billion pop 7,3m North East England GDP £62 billion pop 2,6m £270 billion 10m https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/bulletins/regionaleconomicactivitybygrossdomesticproductuk/1998to2018 https://www.gov.scot/news/oil-and-gas-production-increases-4-6-percent-in-2018/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production Scotland 77.2 million tonnes of oil equivalent Italy 70,6 mto Turkey 49,4 mto Germany 46,8 mto Poland 20,1 mto Netherlands 18,0 mto France 16,4 mto sales of oil and gas produced in Scotland are £25 billion in the 2018/19 financial year. 88% of the UK production. Of which £16 billion worth was exported/supplied to the UK https://scotland.shinyapps.io/sg-scottish-energy-statistics/?Section=OilGas&Chart=OilGasRevenue https://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/gas-transmission/land-and-assets/network-route-maps https://www.gasnetworks.ie/corporate/company/our-network/pipeline-map/
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  8.  @Land-of-reason  I mean 40% of tax generated in Scotland goes to the UK and are spent elsewhere in the UK. Scotland is charged 5x more than should for being in this 'union' it should be 8% our pop share. Scotgov only has one tax power, income tax. Vat, nat insurance, corp tax, and more are taken by the UK 2019 Vat £12,6bn nat ins £11bn corp tax £6.3bn Hs2, a train set between 2 cities in England, deemed 'UK' project, Scotlands 18,4% cost towards that £106b is £19,5 billion and rising for no benefit to Scotland. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hs2-railway-boris-johnson-cost-jobs-budget-construction-a9704706.html Northern Powerhouse Rail, In 2019, it was announced a new commission had been established to plan a new £6 billion city centre station in Liverpool to accommodate HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail Services. Scotlands 18,4% cost of that is £1,1 billion and rising, for no benefit to Scotland London Crossrail, deemed 'UK' project, The total estimated cost has risen to £18.7 billion as of August 2020. Originally planned to open in 2018, the project continues to be delayed. Scotlands 18,4% cost of that is £3,4 billion, for no benefit to Scotland. Trident costs £5 billion per year, Scotlands 18,4% cost of that is £1 billion per year wasted. Trident renewal is estimated to cost £25 billion, 18,4% = £4,6 billion
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  9.  @chrisj9700  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum#Results Recognized as an international legal right, The United Nations Charter placed the right of self-determination into the framework of international law. By virtue of that right any people can freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social development. The Referendums Scotland Act 2020 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament which was passed by Parliament on 19 December 2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_gained_independence_from_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_opinion_on_Kosovo%27s_declaration_of_independence United States; ''The United States invites the International Court of Justice to leave the declaration of independence intact as an expression of the will of the people of Kosovo'' United Kingdom; '''Kosovo, for its part, has made it quite clear, that, given the legacy of abuse, it cannot again become part of Serbia. Courts do not order estranged spouses to continue in a broken marriage.'''
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  10.  @chrisj9700  UK's the probelm, its ignoring the People of Scotland, we've been ignored the whole way through. the UKgovernment dosnt represent Scotland and its driving us away, has been for years, Time to move on from this 'Union' and walk away from it. Scotland voted to stay in Europe, England & Wales voted to leave. Hurry up and leave
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  11.  @chrisj9700  The United Nations Charter placed the right of self-determination into the framework of international law. By virtue of that right any people can freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social development declared during ww2 on 14 August 1941, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, since ww2, 62 countries have gained their independence from the British state. its a world record.
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  12.  @chrisj9700  19 of the fifty-six members of Congress who signed the American Declaration of Independence, were from Scotland or Descent. James Wilson of Pennsylvania and John Witherspoon of New Jersey were natives of Scotland. William Hooper of North Carolina, George Ross of Delaware, Thomas Nelson, Jr., of Virginia, and Philip Livingston of New York were of Scottish descent. Matthew Thornton of New Hampshire and James Smith and George Taylor of Pennsylvania were natives of Ulster; and Thomas McKean of Pennsylvania and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina were of Ulster-Scottish descent. US Senate Resolution 155 of 10 November 1997 states that the American Declaration of Independence was modeled on "the Declaration of Arbroath, the Scottish Declaration of Independence, signed on April 6, 1320 and the American Declaration of Independence was modeled on that inspirational document"
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  13.  @chrisj9700  No thanks, Devolution is about the People of Scotland having the right to Diverge, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum#Scotland Scottish Exports to Countries in the EU £16,2 billion..... Scottish NHS spending £15,2 billion https://www.gov.scot/news/record-investment-in-health-and-care/# https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/West_Midlands_region_spending.html https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/Yorkshire_and_Humber_region_spending.html https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/South_West_England_region_spending.html
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  14.  @chrisj9700  Magna Carta has no force of law in Scotland, it is an English document Scotland is, the only part of the Common Law world where Magna Carta is not, and never has been, part of Scots law, Scotland has its own law system and constitutional documents. The United Kingdom does not have a single legal system. Article 19 of the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England, guaranteed the continued existence of Scotland's And England's separate legal systems. The border is the boundary.
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  15.  @chrisj9700  The Scotland England Border was legally established in 1237 by the Treaty of York between England and Scotland. It remains the border today, Following the Treaty of Union 1707, which created the United Kingdom, the Border forms the boundary of the two legal systems as the treaty between Scotland and England guaranteed the continued separation of Scots law and English law.
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  16.  @Land-of-reason  https://www.gov.scot/publications/government-expenditure-revenue-scotland-gers-2019-20/pages/6/ Table 4.3: VAT, 50% of Vat (within Scotland) is assigned to Scotland, £5,5bn last year. England makes of with the other 50% £5,5bn Scotland is charged £3,5 billion for the UK's defence Table 3.1: https://www.gov.scot/publications/government-expenditure-revenue-scotland-gers-2019-20/pages/5/ Trident costs £5 billion per year, Scotlands charged £1 billion per year for that waste. when it could be going to independent Scottish Navy and the building of it. Denmark 2019 defence spending was 30,389 Danish kroner - £3,6 billion Pounds https://www.statista.com/statistics/695710/military-spending-in-denmark/# Scotland 2020 defence spending £3,5 billion Finland defence spending for 2018 was 3,8 billion us dollars - £3 billion pounds. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/FIN/finland/military-spending-defense-budget Portugal 2020 defence spending 3 billion Euros - £2,7 billion Pounds https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/portugal-increases-defence-spending-to-141-of-gdp/50176 Czech republic 2020 defence spending is 75,5 billion czech kroner - £2,5 billion Pounds. https://www.czdjournal.com/news/czech-defence-budget-to-reach-czk-755-billion-for-2020-is-it-enough-254.html
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  17.  @Land-of-reason  The Union of the two parliaments in 1707 created Westminster and at that point, Scotland effectively became a colony and its revenue was counted towards the wider UK figure. In 1706, the nominal GDP of the UK was £71,000,000. In 1708, it increased to £87,000,000.That’s an increase of £16,000,000.That is 18.4% of the £87,000,000 1707 figure, and can by all intents and purposes be attributed to Scotland as her share. In 2018, using the same source as for the above GDP (nominal), the UK figure was 2,177,724,000,000. 18.4% of that is 400,701,210,000 Norway $417,627,000,000 Scotland $400,701,000,000 Ireland $384,940,000,000 Denmark $347,176,000,000 https://macalbasite.wordpress.com/2020/03/06/scotlands-true-wealth-exposed-again/ https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/knowledgebank/what-is-gdp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_GDP_(nominal) https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/bulletins/regionaleconomicactivitybygrossdomesticproductuk/1998to2018 North West England £207,452,000,000 North East England £62,644,000,000 £270,096,000,000 Scotland $400,701,000,000 - Pounds £302,338,000,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Commonwealth_of_Nations_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_GDP
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