r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 🫖 Mod ☕️ • Sep 14 '26

European Renaissance 🍾 🧀 🍻 🇬🇧The Future?

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u/TheBlargh5000 Sep 14 '26

Each country would inherit their part of the UK debt. It's highly likely their economies would be too bad for the EU to consider letting them join.

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u/B41LSY Sep 15 '26

Why would those countries accept another countries debt? This type of thing was answered during the Scottish independence referendum, the same with currency etc.

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u/Arturiel Sep 15 '26

Because the UK government holds the power to let them be independent and the UK debt is also debt from money spent on Wales, Scotland and NI. If they're not going to take on their share of money spent on them then why would they be permitted to become independent? That's a debt of £268 billion for Scotland right out the door.

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u/Stinky_Pete699 Sep 15 '26

Nah, most of that ‘debt’ was funnelled to England. Like everything always has been.

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u/vikingrhino Sep 15 '26

Says Stinky Pete so it's true!

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u/Stinky_Pete699 Sep 15 '26

Want an example, look at per head of population funding of transport infrastructure, or perhaps R and D funding. You name it England exploits the UK.

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u/vikingrhino Sep 15 '26

Cherry pick to things to try and prove your flawed argument.

Identifiable Government Spend per Person Relative to UK Average (£13,504)

Northern Ireland £16,116 Scotland £15,563 Wales £15,155 England £13,134

So the UK spends considerably more per capita on every other home nation than England does.

The debt we've accumulated is as a country, if you want to leave you have to pay your part of it.

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u/Stinky_Pete699 Sep 15 '26

‘Cherry picking’ real statistics. Then declaring others are flawed. Hilarious. England and its people know full well they depend on Wales and Scotland for their wealth. Hence why you are all on here bleating away against the breakup of the UK and not promoting it.

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u/Klutzy-Notice-8247 Sep 15 '26

The UK depends primarily on London and the south east for its wealth. How are Scotland and Wales sources of wealth for the UK?

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u/vikingrhino Sep 16 '26

Please enlighten us, what wealth do Scotland and Wales generate for England? Absolutely every statistic out there shows both nations are heavily subsidised.

I genuinely couldn't care less if the UK broke up and your argument about all being on here... What are you doing here?

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u/Stinky_Pete699 Sep 16 '26

If you don’t care if the UK breaks up why are you here? Do enlighten us all. What purpose does your post have?

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u/cillitbangers Sep 15 '26

Scotland is not a net contributor to the UK economy. It receives more money from Governemnt than it generates in tax

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u/Stinky_Pete699 Sep 15 '26

Yeh I know, if you count business tax in Wales so is Wales.

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u/Arturiel Sep 15 '26

I mean you can just Google spending per capita for each nation and realise you're actually wrong. England is the worst receiver of public funds, and most of what England gets is mainly sent to London. The people being robbed here isn't the Scottish.