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Tuesday, 16, Feb 2010 02:05
Thanks to a Scottish Prime Minister and a Scottish Chancellor, the people of England along with their children and grandchildren have been saddled with paying off enormous debts incurred by the wanton profligacy of the Royal Bank of Scotland and Halifax Bank of Scotland.
Now the First Minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, is demanding that Scotland's already over-generous Barnett subsidies should be continued untouched, thereby leaving the enormous burden of the Scottish bank bail-out to fall primarily on public services in England whilst leaving Scotland unscathed.
With no Parliament and politicians of our own to speak up for us and defend our interests, the Campaign for an English Parliament wishes to remind the British Government that any attempt to make England suffer an unfair share of the burden will be neither understood nor forgiven.
David Wildgoose
Vice-Chair, Campaign for an English Parliament
Contact: cep@skein.co.uk or 07906 551417
Ref: "Hands off Scotland's grant, warns Alex Salmond"
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Hands-off-Scotland39s-grant-warns.6071256.jp