26-06-2017, 12:25 PM
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Tories and DUP agree UK government deal - they get £1bn
...of tax-payers money
Originally Posted by Jim Pickard (Chief Political Correspondent for the Financial Times and co-founder of FT Westminster.)
That works out at ONE HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS per DUP MP.
And....
26-06-2017, 12:38 PM
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Re: Tories and DUP agree UK government deal - they get £1bn
If the Tories' closed doors deal-making with the DUP continues SNP MP Kirsty Blackman warned the Tories against any attempt to short-change Scotland – if a financial package is offered to Northern Ireland in return for DUP votes.Kirsty Blackman MP, SNP Wesminster Deputy Leader, said:
“Any attempt to short change Scotland will not be acceptable to SNP MPs or the Scottish Government.
“This kind of pork barrel politics is a new low for Westminster.
“Funding across the UK is supposed to be determined by the Barnett formula, and we cannot have the funding formula ripped up in order to dish out large chunks of cash to Northern Ireland, in a grubby deal with the DUP, without fair treatment across the board.
“At the same time suggestions that a corporation tax cut would be under written for Northern Ireland, while Scotland and Wales bear full responsibility for our tax decisions, would be out of order given the responsibility other parliaments rightly take.
“We need full transparency on the DUP deal and we need it asap. SNP MPs will fight for Scotland to get every penny that we are entitled to, it will be a test of other MPs from Scotland if they have the guts to do the same.”
There may be trouble ahead
26-06-2017, 12:44 PM
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Re: Tories and DUP agree UK government deal - they get £1bn
Personally I don't agree with buying political support with taxpayers cash, to my mind the conservatives should have tried to govern without a majority, and either sink or swim to attract the necessary votes from other parties on the stength of the case they could put forward.26-06-2017, 12:46 PM
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Re: Tories and DUP agree UK government deal - they get £1bn
Originally Posted by Barry
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Personally I don't agree with buying political support with taxpayers cash, to my mind the conservatives should have tried to govern without a majority, and either sink or swim to attract the necessary votes from other parties on the stength of the case they could put forward.
26-06-2017, 12:56 PM
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Re: Tories and DUP agree UK government deal - they get £1bn
Surely this is buying votes? and with taxpayers money?What I still fail to understand is that some time back, I am sure I heard someone say that if money is given to the DUP, then Scotland and Wales also have to receive extra. What the hell is going on if this is so? Are the English once again going to get shafted? We are aready bottom of the barrel when it comes to money per head within the four parts of the country.
I hope someone on OFF can explain to me how the system works whereby a government is freely able to give away £1 billion pounds of taxpayers money as a bribe for backing. If this was in a boardroom tussle, it would be a criminal offence.
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