Free haggis cookers?

I blame Gordon Brown

Pfffft. Scotland's not a country.

Oh no, they have free college tuition! The horror!

Saxaholic: Oh no, they have free college tuition! The horror!

Remember: People pooling their collective effort to improve the positions of everyone in the group is evil. Only the upper classes should prosper! That's why the US is a monarchy.

I also like how the article says the prediction is for Scotland to have the third largest per capita spending by 2012, yet even then it would still be behind both Cuba and Iraq.

"WELCOME to McCuba. Scotland is set to become the third most state-dependent country in the world. Soon Havana and Baghdad will be the only capitals that rely more on public spending than Edinburgh, according to economic forecasters.

....The forecasters - from the Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR), a consultancy that advises the UK government - warn in a report that the burgeoning Scottish public sector is "unsustainable".

The CEBR paper, commissioned by The Sunday Times,...."



Who is the CEBR; why was the report commissioned by a newspaper instead of the UK government; how much 'consulting' does the CEBR do for the UK government; why is there no link to the online version of the study; and who are the other 7 countries rounding out the Top 10?

Is this report relevant to English taxpayers only, or globally?

And just for shucks and giggles, I wonder where Israel, France and Belgium all fit when it comes to welfare states?

In Cuba's case, the government has done an amazing job at sustaining the people, considering the limited resources on an island under a US embargo.

Does the Palestinian Authority qualify as a country?

hyperspacemonkey: In Cuba's case, the government has done an amazing job at sustaining the people, considering the limited resources on an island under a US embargo

Wow. You really live in a fantasy world.

hyperspacemonkey: In Cuba's case, the government has done an amazing job at sustaining the people, considering the limited resources on an island under a US embargo.

99.9% of the world trades with Cuba but it's America's fault they are a shiathole.

Cuba has a shiat load of embargos, Scotland, what's your excuse?

Oh, Scotland, you magnificent retard.

arn't they supposed to be like, thrifty or something. whenever i see an advertisement featuring a cartoon of a tartan wearing guy,or one of those funny hats with a ball on top, i figure it's a good place to shop. and by good i mean cheap.

Paid for by Scottish oil from the North Sea...the revenue from which goes straight to London.

ant to make magic_patch: Paid for by Scottish oil from the North Sea...the revenue from which goes straight to London.

QFT

Scottish materials go South and then they are blamed for not providing anything.

hyperspacemonkey: In Cuba's case, the government has done an amazing job at sustaining the people, considering the limited resources on an island under a US embargo.

The US doesn't receive anything from the US and they do just fine.

sorry Scotland. But you're no more a country than Palestine. Thus the metric is moot.

magic_patch: Paid for by Scottish oil from the North Sea...the revenue from which goes straight to London.

Oil of which 40 percent is in what would be English territorial waters, and of which 80 percent of the gas is in what would be English territorial waters, and being that over 50 percent of the Scottish workforce work for the public sector, even the oil revenue that goes to the treasury goes straight back to Scotland due to the workshy lazy incompetant workforce, so shut your hole.

lotustuned: magic_patch: Paid for by Scottish oil from the North Sea...the revenue from which goes straight to London.

Oil of which 40 percent is in what would be English territorial waters, and of which 80 percent of the gas is in what would be English territorial waters, and being that over 50 percent of the Scottish workforce work for the public sector, even the oil revenue that goes to the treasury goes straight back to Scotland due to the workshy lazy incompetant workforce, so shut your hole.

Ding! We have a winner!

/Worked in the North Sea oil industry for over 10 years
//You can keep it

Like I would believe anything printed in a Murdoch rag.