On Thursday, David Cameron “vowed” to stand-by his panicked and foolhardy pre-Scottish referendum promise that the Scots could keep the “Barnett Formula”. This is the formula that gives the Scottish family £6,400 more per year that the average English family (£1,600 per annum).
He is doing this despite opposition from one hundred of his own MPs. This means that the English will continue to suffer and see their services being reduced due to underfunding whilst Scotland will continue to receive an inflated cut of English taxpayers’ money.
Where is the justice in this? Why is David Cameron ignoring the plight of the hard working English men and women? Even late Lord Barnett himself branded the formula ‘an embarrassment’ and undemocratic shortly before the Scottish Independence referendum - so how can the leaders of the coalition continue to support it if the man who devised the formula didn’t? It is high time that the people of England were treated fairly!
Robin Tilbrook, the Chairman of the English Democrats said:- ‘David Cameron is using English taxpayer’s money for an electoral ‘bribe’ for the Scots to stay with the UK. How much longer will the English taxpayer be taken for granted? As austerity measures hit hard in England, David Cameron has agreed to protect the Scots from the harshest measures that the English face. The Union of our nations was meant to be a Union of equals but that is no longer the case as the English are continually penalised. The Barnett formula must to be scrapped.
Robin Tilbrook
Chairman,
The English Democrats,
Where is the justice in this? Why is David Cameron ignoring the plight of the hard working English men and women? Even late Lord Barnett himself branded the formula ‘an embarrassment’ and undemocratic shortly before the Scottish Independence referendum - so how can the leaders of the coalition continue to support it if the man who devised the formula didn’t? It is high time that the people of England were treated fairly!
Robin Tilbrook, the Chairman of the English Democrats said:- ‘David Cameron is using English taxpayer’s money for an electoral ‘bribe’ for the Scots to stay with the UK. How much longer will the English taxpayer be taken for granted? As austerity measures hit hard in England, David Cameron has agreed to protect the Scots from the harshest measures that the English face. The Union of our nations was meant to be a Union of equals but that is no longer the case as the English are continually penalised. The Barnett formula must to be scrapped.
Robin Tilbrook
Chairman,
The English Democrats,