On Home Rule/Devo Max

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Smurf

Smurf

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These guys talk sense....

homerule.scot
 
Quite out of date isn't it? Sept 2011.

Scotland has moved on since then I think.

How about this as an idea for home rule...

we collect every single aspect of taxation created within Scotland, we then send Westminster a cheque for x to cover things like national debt,defence,international development and other stuff deemed too high brow for Holyrood to understand.
 
Looks encouraging but from first glance it should be moredevo.scot rather than homerule.scot.

Home Rule for me would be everything bar foreign affairs, defence, and any tax that the EU state should be the same across all areas of member states.
 
Smurf said:
No mate you should be able to view?
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Ah, I'm being a neep. I saw the out of date article as referenced by Southfieldhibby in his post. I didnt realise that was the one you were talkiung about, I was looking for an up to date article. Sorry for the confusion mate.
 
southfieldhibby said:
Quite out of date isn't it? Sept 2011.

Scotland has moved on since then I think.

How about this as an idea for home rule...

we collect every single aspect of taxation created within Scotland, we then send Westminster a cheque for x to cover things like national debt,defence,international development and other stuff deemed too high brow for Holyrood to understand.
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Not out of date at all mate. They gave a very impressive media conference this morning in Dynamic Earth at 10am. Henry McLeish and Andrew Wilson involved.
 
at first glance their submission to Smith is a bit short on detail but never-the-less a step forward for their (mostly) unionist members. Some of the language used is a bit vague - what do they mean for example by substantial welfare powers? - and seems to advocate a gradualist approach to further devolution without defining a timescale or any specifics.
 
Reform Scotland makes its Home Rule case

The assembled journalists didn't seem too excited about the document, one of them asking: "Haven't we heard it all before?" Others suggested the timing was a little out of sync with the Smith Commission. I asked whether oil would be included within revenues, but no one supported that, it is after all "UK oil"!
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Shove it:coffee:
 
gun ainm said:
at first glance their submission to Smith is a bit short on detail but never-the-less a step forward for their (mostly) unionist members. Some of the language used is a bit vague - what do they mean for example by substantial welfare powers? - and seems to advocate a gradualist approach to further devolution without defining a timescale or any specifics.
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You say, they say, mostly Unionist.

I would love to see a genuinely cross party, cross everything, the best of each side, get together and put forward something that was best for the people of Scotland within the UK, given that's where we are.

Too many noses in the trough unfortunately, too many influences.

Unfortunately I feel anyone volunteering their place on such a group would be tainted.
 
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