Meet consequences. Like all wannabe despots, Useless Yousaf doesn’t stop to think that maybe his insane plans might lead to unintended consequences.
Humza Yousaf‘s decision to hit Scotland’s middle class with a new tax hike will have a “catastrophic” effect and see businesses, banks, innovators, as well as doctors, dentists and academics flee to England, an MP warned.
Anyone with half a functioning braincell would see this coming a mile off. It’s not exactly difficult to predict. You don’t need to be the late Mystic Meg to work it out. England and Scotland have a porous border. I know that being a politician involves having a low IQ, but this twat exceeds all predictions for stupid twattisheness. Indeed, he is a masterclass in stupidity, venality and petty authoritarianism that exceeds even that of Drakeford in Wales.
Dr Cameron, herself a former mental health professional in the NHS as a psychologist, said that the raid on middle-class wages will leave Scotland short of key staff who will move to lower-taxed parts of the UK.
Well of course they will. Who wouldn’t?
Mr Yousaf’s SNP and his Scottish Green allies have been left short of money after lavishing millions on their independence projects.
As is always the case. The people who enter politics are the very people who should be barred for life from doing so because they cannot be trusted not to do precisely this. But, I do hope he goes ahead with his plans. He needs to learn the hard way. And the Scots need to learn the hard way that this is what happens when you vote for an extremist party and put the cunts in power. Perhaps then they will do something about it. Voting them out would be nice. Dangling them by their necks from the Forth Bridge would be nicer.
I predict that it will all ‘be the fault of the English’ with their ‘unfair low tax regime’. But will any dissenting voices be heard?
The feeling in North Britain is that the SNP is doomed.
The killing off of real industry, the bonfire of taxpayers money on ” businesses” they think deserve support after customers decided otherwise – Prestwick Airport, Ferguson’s Ferries, Super fast Broadband, new Hospitals which fail, the provision of modern dual carriageway roads, island ferries which fail unexpectedly, a failing Health Service, decaying cities, burgeoning illegal drug deaths, dropping educational standards…..
Then there are top of the range motor homes, top of the range battery powered Jaguars and the watching of football via the interweb on taxpayers funds while on a private holiday.
The SNP has its jaiket hingin’ on a shoogly nail.
Very shoogly.
It’s not a question of “fleeing”; it’s a question of whether they’ll ever come back.
During the 2014 referendum campaign, while I was canvassing for “No”, I bumped into a family friend who’s in the finance business. He told me he’d just had a meeting with one of the big insurers, the purpose of which was to tell their clients that they’d decided to halt all investment in Scotland for a decade, regardless of the result. It wasn’t the first such meeting, he said.
Those decisions will be up for review next year. What are the odds of them changing their minds in light of this? As Doonhamer says, the SNP are probably on their way out. Probably. But not tomorrow. And who will replace them? The situation is just as uncertain as it was ten years ago. Even if there’s a return to relatively sane government in Scotland, it’ll take another decade for anyone to be confident that it’s going to stick around.
I don’t think it will have the exodus that you think. People are generally stupid and all they will see if a bit more money going out of their account and will they really sell up and go South for that.
It’s the same here. Rates go up in a county. A few people move but not enough to push a stick in their eye. So what if it only pulls in £10M and not £15M. They will just move on to something else.
And don’t forget it is us that is subsiding this via the ‘temporary’ Barnett Formulae. Now let they get their independence and see how that does although with our useless politicians we would probably send them aid greater than the Barnett cash.
Based on the way that the Government is paying truck loads of cash to the EU after BREXIT, then indeed I can see that they will still subsidise the Scots for the next 400 years too.
There is no stupidity that I would put past the numpties in Westminster.