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The truth about Scotland, the UK and the £500m bribe for Crossrail

real news | 30.10.2007 12:00

Why are politicians and the media really upset about Scotland? Because they have the balls to give their citizens what any first rate country citizen should expect - free school meals, free prescriptions, no tuitition fees. England with the help of the corporate media has removed such essentials and worse still liars in the corporate press with help from corrupt academics Travers are misleading the public. They often refer to what London pays in relation to Scotland. But who pays what? It is not big business or the City and Canary Wharf whose interests and whims they represent. Ordinary Londoners pay taxes like the Scots with the North Sea. Most Scottish MPs had expressed an interest in voting against the £16-30 billion rail scheme Crossrail, which is being foisted on Londoners who are expected to pay two thirds for a line that will benefit the affluent City and Canary Wharf. Why? Because it is a bad scheme that makes money for private interests and developers and harms large parts of London.

Scotland is an aspiration not something to be ridiculed
England, the corrupt politicians and the pandering mainstream press including the discredited Newsnight is just a bad joke.

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Sadly

30.10.2007 12:25

In Scotland we're set to spend £500M on a 5 mile urban motorway extension that was rejected by a Public Inquiry.

The grass isn't greener here, it just rains more.

Glasgow person

Weegie

30.10.2007 13:48

It is true Scotland is investing in its first motorway. That isn't particularly green, but it comes on the back of decades of underinvestment in the Scottish infrastructure compared to the massive public subsidies that London and the south east have recieved.. It costs £16 to travel by train the short distance between Edinburgh and Glasgow, and over an hour and a half in time. I can travel to London for less money than it takes me to travel by bus to Glasgow. I can travel to Newcastle quicker. This is fucking ridiculous and unfair and unenvironmental.

So well done to the guy who pointed out the Crossrsail link is dubious. You would be better off with free education, free health and the other benefits we do have up here. And if there is any undoubtable need for rail investment in the whole of the UK, it is between Edinburgh and Glasgow, not across London.

One day that will come, in the meantime we have to catch up with fifty years of under infrastructure investment at the expense of London being subsidised until it is cracking at the seams.

Danny

Scots Wae Ha

31.10.2007 10:41

Just remember that the neo cons and neo labs have never recovered from the fact that Margaret Thatcher never reached Scotland!

Rabbie

underinvestment no excuse

31.10.2007 11:26

The M74 Extension is not "catching up with 50 years of infrastructure underinvestment". The existence of plans for it led to that area being "allowed" to decay. It's unecessary and a disgrace only welcomed by them who'll profit from it.

Glasgow person

all roads lead to London

31.10.2007 14:41

>The M74 Extension is not "catching up with 50 years of infrastructure underinvestment".

I agree, the M74 is a terrible thing but I think turning the A8 into the M8 is a good idea. The damage done by the M8 to Glasgow has already been done. Scotlands two premier cities, so close and yet not connected by either an affordable working rail link or a motorway link is frankly Albanian. What are the two biggest English cities that aren't connected by a motorway route ? That is a serious question.