The EU has awarded Ireland almost €1 billion (£850m) for compensation for Brexit, while Scotland has been given just £172 million from a UK fund

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  3. …the same Scotland that got £36.5 billion last year from English taxpayers?

    “Scotland’s deficit more than doubled to £36.3bn, or 22.4% of GDP in 2020-21, the highest yearly figure since devolution”

  5. Personally I can’t wait for the day we no longer have to give money to these ungrateful donkeys.

  6. A lot of articles about the SPF fund, but it’s one of several that the gov have set up to replace EU funds in different areas, so it’s pretty disingenuous to compare it alone..

    The gov have guaranteed that each UK country will receive *at least* as much as it received from the EU’s structural payments via these new funds.

  8. They finally said the quiet part out loud huh? Being an independent country apparently just means going begging for whoever will give you the most handouts.

  9. Scotland already gets the highest funding per capita from Westminster of any of the UK nations, even before Brexit it was £300 per head more than England.

  12. Spend a few decades helping foreign multinationals avoid taxes and undermine the eu’s ability to fight corruption?

    That’s a good boy, here’s a billion paid for by those who actually do pay taxes! Enjoy!

  13. Disingenuous rubbish (as usual) from The National.

    Ireland is getting €910m (£780m) over the next 3 years. The £172m figure is what Scotland has been allocated from the SPF (a scheme which is not fully up and running yet) so far *this year*. Scotland is projected to get £1.5bn from the SPF over the next 7 years, although lots of details have yet to be finalised.

    Crap partisan journalism at it again.

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