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

European Renaissance 🍾 🧀 🍻 🇬🇧The Future?

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u/edge2528 Sep 14 '26

But who will pay the bills for the others now?

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u/Skyremmer102 Sep 15 '26

Your understanding of macroeconomics is just so badly wrong. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that Scotland or Wales couldn't be independent.

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u/eat-the-kids-first Sep 15 '26

Explain in simple terms how Scotland and especially Wales can have self sustaining economies and then your comment can be taken seriously.

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u/Skyremmer102 Sep 16 '26

I swear unionist talking points require you to disengage your brain before speaking. Scotland's continuing existence (and Wales') prove they have self sustaining economies.

And what do you even mean by self-sustaining economies anyway? Countries are just places where people live through accident of birth and thusly they simply make do because that is necessary to survive. If people can physically survive here (and they obviously can), then the economy is self-sustaining.

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u/eat-the-kids-first Sep 16 '26

Then why are both Scotland and Wales lavished with huge block grants from Westminster to enable them to function. Essentially England pays for their continued existence.

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u/Skyremmer102 Sep 16 '26

Then why are both Scotland and Wales lavished with huge block grants from Westminster to enable them to function.

The money is pretty much the absolute minimum Westminster thinks it can get away with sending to Scotland and Wales.

It is a necessary function because neither Scotland nor Wales has their own currency. Without it there literally would be no money in Scotland or Wales (or not for very long as what there is is hoovered up by tax).

Essentially England pays for their continued existence.

You have it quite wrong. Even if the Scottish and Welsh government didn't exist there would have to be a fiscal transfer from the central government just to provide cash for use.

But if you really have convinced yourself that England pays for Scotland and Wales then you should consider voting for a party which will eject them out of the union.

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u/eat-the-kids-first Sep 16 '26

That’s the most ludicrously convoluted lie I’ve ever read.