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Debunking the myths and lies of the SNP/Yes and how they’ve radicalised Scots.
Scotland subsidises England.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/government-expenditure-revenue-scotland-gers-2019-20/

MYTH.

We spend £81 billion for public sector yet only bring in £65 b.

GERS is collected for the SG and SNP had no issues with it when it suited them.

Can’t have it both ways.
The Scottish Government cannot borrow.

MYTH

On the ScotGov website it is there but down in the footnotes.

Scotland Act (2016).
Scotland pays for HS2

MYTH.
Scotland pays for London’s Crossrail project.

MYTH

We receive additional funding via Barnett consequentials

http://whytepaper.wordpress.com/2015/09/13/mem 
England needs Scotland’s oil. (Sometimes “steals”)

MYTH

Have a look at the contribution to the Treasury the UK Financial Services Sector (mainly in City of London) makes.
Scotland and England are in a voluntary union which can be dissolved at any time.

MYTH.

Union of Crowns was 1603. The Acts of Union created ONE Kingdom (a synonym for country then).

It’s in black & white.

Germany & Italy similar. Prussia & Piedmont joined with smaller states.
Frigates https://twitter.com/gorbalsgoebbels/status/1348643883949961223
EU membership after 2014 https://twitter.com/gorbalsgoebbels/status/1348639099222192135
Whisky https://twitter.com/gorbalsgoebbels/status/1348629405250285568
Water https://twitter.com/gorbalsgoebbels/status/1348630568234340352
Exports https://twitter.com/gorbalsgoebbels/status/1348629983137325061
Once in a generation https://twitter.com/gorbalsgoebbels/status/1348630996053352454
Pensions https://twitter.com/gorbalsgoebbels/status/1348634978783997953
Myths of George Square https://twitter.com/gorbalsgoebbels/status/1348637769191596032
The 51st and St Valery https://twitter.com/gorbalsgoebbels/status/1348637776506466308
The Vow https://twitter.com/gorbalsgoebbels/status/1348644815832014850
UK isn’t a country or a unitary state. https://twitter.com/gorbalsgoebbels/status/1348641878980308992
Currency https://twitter.com/gorbalsgoebbels/status/1348645474820042753
This last one isn’t a myth, but more a taking apart of a myth spreader.

In 2014 I nearly fell for the bunkum of Wings and his Wee Blue Book.

I did my own research from various sources but then found @kevverage

He put the WBB to bed.

http://chokkablog.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-we 

Truth is vital.
The radicalisation of Scots by the SNP and Yes is worrying.

Some of these myths seem trivial. But they are all designed to perpetuate the Nat narrative that England is cheating or stealing from Scotland somehow.

It’s Trumpian.

It must always be called out and challenged.
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