Peter Woodifield

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@NishitSud @GillianDowning2 @peterrhague What has National Insurance to do with the NHS- in the sense it is also supposed to cover pensions and other benefit?. Income tax and NI all go into one big general pot. None of our taxes/NI are earmarked in advance for the NHS because there is no specific NHS tax as such.

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@kifatlarge @arfurbrain @nmdacosta True of government legislation but I’m not sure it’s true for private members bills

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@toadmeister Since it was a free vote what does Labour’s massive majority have do with anything? All the parties are split on this.

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@RuarBro @Minorcynic @neilcgray The shortfall is 100% the result of Scottish govt employing more public servants and paying more than rUK. Why should rUK pay for that, especially as public spending per head in Scotland is already much higher - and that’s not because of higher need relative to much of England?

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@neilcgray @theSNP Complete rubbish being talked by Neil Gray. The only reason £300m is not enough is because the SNP insists on employing more public officials than rUK - and paying them more. There are consequences, one of which is there is no good reason for rUK to pay for bad SNP decisions.

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@GoodLawProject So why didn’t you complete the second paragraph with something like this ..and Britain’s role in abolishing the slave trade? Your record as Good Law Project is abysmal - why not try to do better as the Good History Project? But your tweet suggests you couldn’t do that either.

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@robawoods @jimac111 Another bot

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@jimac111 Have you got £150M in your back pocket to meet this year’s losses at Grangemouth, let alone. If you have I’m sure Petroineos would love to sell it to you. Just because an export leaves through an English port doesn’t mean the tax necessarily goes to England.

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@Xsern @mawilms @MrJamesMay But if the farm and equipment are valued at £3m for probate purposes then probably the only way of paying the IHT bill is for the inheritor/s to sell the land, which means UK is even less capable of feeding itself. It’s a dumb strategy. We need productive farms.

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@ShuggyMcGlumper @bryandocherty80 Pity Flower of Scotland is living 700 years in the past. Just as much a dirge as God Save the King.

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@DocMeon @bryandocherty80 No one sings that - so there’s no need to be a pretendy victim

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@MarieClaire265 @lanpark98 Except she didn’t set us up for anything

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@SealeStu @BrechinYes2 I am not a liar, you can check it out. I agree the formula for calculating electricity prices, which I think is based on distribution costs, is completely wrong and needs revising

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@SealeStu @BrechinYes2 That’s because constituencies in England had more voters per constituency than Scotland and in particular Wales. The idea was for constituencies to be more equal in terms of voters. There was no stealing about it.

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@DickWinchester Rubbish

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@jwahjwah @DickWinchester @TheAlexHughes Yes

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@AScot94175440 @John1909mac I think you will find that, had Scotland voted Yes, there would have been intense negotiations over what share of UK total debt an independent Scotland would assume - and it wouldn’t have been 0%.

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@Irene60779832 @msm_monitor What’s wrong with leading with a story about someone who is far better known across Scotland than some local councillor whose name might be familiar to a few people in his own area and to even fewer outside?

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@msm_monitor Far more people know who Stuart Hogg is than who Stephen McCabe is. As a retired journalist I would lead on the Stuart Hogg story every time

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@BladeoftheS I think I’d prefer to ban Gary Lineker from football