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Happy #GERS Denial Day today folks. The most magical day of the year where we celebrate up being down, left being right and dogs being cats, all by gaslight.
Remember a few points:
Those who tell us that #GERS isn't the starting point of iScot now told us it was just, what? 8 years ago? Because it showed a surplus.
Those who tell us that #GERS isn't the starting point of iScot now told us it was just, what? 8 years ago? Because it showed a surplus.
Those same folks will tell us that #GERS nominal deficit is a metric that shows the UK doesn't work for Scotland. They told us that a nominal surplus shows the UK doesn't work for Scotland
Those same folks will take the #GERS nominal deficit and tell us that an independent Scotland "will make different decision" but won't tell you what those decisions would be in order to maintain the quality of life we have now.
Those same folks will tell us that the figures aren't accurate because "they're provided by HMRC" despite #GERS being produced by the Scottish government.
Those same folks will claim that while all the figures are false the £10bn #GERS deficit can be closed by saving £300m a year by scrapping Trident
Remember that Noncy Deek promised last year that his department would produce "alternative facts" in response to #GERS that, um, is produced by his department
Through all this remember that today you will hear that @kevverage is "a dog food salesman". Yes, in the same way Kate Forbes is a history graduate and Nicola Sturgeon is a trainee solicitor.
Now on this most sacred of days let us pray from the book of Moron:
Dear #GERS
Who art from Westminster
Garbage be thy figures
Thy illustration be Yoon
Thy will be different
In Edinburgh than it is in London
Give us this day our daily squirrel
And forgive us our AUOB figures
As we forgive those that cross the border with covid
Amen
Who art from Westminster
Garbage be thy figures
Thy illustration be Yoon
Thy will be different
In Edinburgh than it is in London
Give us this day our daily squirrel
And forgive us our AUOB figures
As we forgive those that cross the border with covid
Amen
anyways, have a good day and remember, those that deny #GERS are simply wrong. There is no shade of grey, no nuances, they are simply wrong and beyond reasoning with. They will make us poorer, wilfully, for their childish hatred of the English.
