Standing for London, not Edinburgh - Matt O'Connor

Hartlepool · 27-01-2008, 07:58 PM

A milestone around your necks?

Westcountryman · 27-01-2008, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Britannist

Yes - the issue of the London deficit has to be addressed.

The capital gets less £5 billion a year less from the UK Government in public funds than it is entitled to.

That must be a joke. London is already the most highly funded area of the UK (per head of population).

Here's a really radical idea...how about the rural areas get fair funding for once? Cornwall (and the rest of the South West) has been underfunded for decades.

Cornwall is one of the few authorities in the Country where the majority of the Council's budget is made up of Council tax, not central government grant.

For example,

Cornwall County Council has a budget of £309 million to serve 500,000 residents (and all the magic holiday makers).

Dudley Borough Council gets £590 million to serve 300,000 residents.

Cardiff County Council gets £459 million to serve some 320,000.

Englander 1 · 28-01-2008, 02:18 AM

English Democrats kickin up a storm....looking forward to the campaign launch....We Love this Party!

Britannist · 28-01-2008, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Eurosceptic Atlanticist

Here's a really radical idea...how about the rural areas get fair funding for once? Cornwall (and the rest of the South West) has been underfunded for decades. Cornwall County Council has a budget of £309 million to serve 500,000 residents (and all the magic holiday makers). Dudley Borough Council gets £590 million to serve 300,000 residents. Cardiff County Council gets £459 million to serve some 320,000.

It is true that Cornwall is underfunded. Cornwall is not being treated fairly by this Labour shower in power.

No one in Cornwall should vote for the europhile Labour regime or for the europhile Liberal Dims (no one anywhere should vote for those two parties).

Dudley, by the way, has Labour MPs and both Dudley seats are marginal. Cardiff has mostly Labour MPs too - in potentially marginal constituencies.

Labour has only one MP in Cornwall (I think they have one) and the Labour Brown regime has not got Cornwall at the top of its priority list.

Labour does not understand rural areas like Cornwall.

Englishman · 28-01-2008, 01:56 PM

So he wants all of Londons tax contributions to stay in London.

Isn't this suporting London to break away from England? which is then suporting regions??? London as its own region, breaking away from England???

How is this talk of an English nationalist? Sounds more like a regionalist?????

My families tax goes all over England, and as an English nationalist I don't want to just keep it in my own City.
Of course I don't want it going to Scotland, but would not want it stopped from being shared all over England, as I'm not about to call for independence of my own city etc

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Originally Posted by Kentishman

Standing for London, not Edinburgh.

Said O'Connor today, "I'm alarmed by the state of our political discourse and a democracy that is failing Londoners on such a spectacular scale. I'm standing for London and that means we have to review the amount of taxes that flow from London to other parts of the UK including Scotland, so that our taxes are invested in London, not Edinburgh.

"We must also place families and communities at the heart of our agenda. 27 teenagers died last year in a violent harvest of bullets and blades on the bloodstained streets of our capital city and the role of fathers is absolutely integral to solving this problem. London is in breakdown - family and community breakdown - and I believe that as an agent for change, I can restore and repair our broken city."

"With regard to spending, the Mayor is profligate and has morphed into a great bloated newt jealously guarding his gold hoard. For motorists he is the Highwayman from Hell and for taxpayers he is 'Cashpoint Ken' the man who is milking London dry."

Matt O'Connor is the English Democrats London Mayoral Candidate -May 2008

Place a bet now - 500-1

Frith · 28-01-2008, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Englishman

So he wants all of Londons tax contributions to stay in London.

So he can spend it on the increasingly lawless often non-ethnic English yobs and criminals shooting and knifing one another on London's streets. The increasingly multicultural nature of the city is being fuelled by white flight and immigration. London is destined for a white minority population. So all this cash will ultimately be looking after whom? The ethnic English? It will be preserving the dialects and heritage of an English city and the site of the Mother of Parliaments, the architectural heritage of religious buildings etc? In the face of those advancing minarets? Almost certainly not. In the face of powerful Muslim opinion blocs that can be called up at will with the certainty of local immigrant and naturalised support on a cultural basis? Not likely.

cassie · 28-01-2008, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Eurosceptic Atlanticist

That must be a joke. London is already the most highly funded area of the UK (per head of population).

Here's a really radical idea...how about the rural areas get fair funding for once? Cornwall (and the rest of the South West) has been underfunded for decades.

Cornwall is one of the few authorities in the Country where the majority of the Council's budget is made up of Council tax, not central government grant.

For example,

Cornwall County Council has a budget of £309 million to serve 500,000 residents (and all the magic holiday makers).

Dudley Borough Council gets £590 million to serve 300,000 residents.

Cardiff County Council gets £459 million to serve some 320,000.

Lubbly jubbly! This is just the tack to take in a GLA election campaign . . . . if you wanted to minimise your support that is!

Londoners would just love it!

cassie · 28-01-2008, 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Englishman

So he wants all of Londons tax contributions to stay in London.

Isn't this suporting London to break away from England? which is then suporting regions??? London as its own region, breaking away from England???

How is this talk of an English nationalist? Sounds more like a regionalist?????

My families tax goes all over England, and as an English nationalist I don't want to just keep it in my own City.
Of course I don't want it going to Scotland, but would not want it stopped from being shared all over England, as I'm not about to call for independence of my own city etc

'Ere! I thought you'd given up on politics! Now wot's this all abaht?

Englishman · 28-01-2008, 05:06 PM

Its about common sense, I hope :-)

I don't have to join a party or support and beleive in politics as being the be all and end all of the saviour of the English. (As its not)

Just saying things as I see them.

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Originally Posted by cassie

'Ere! I thought you'd given up on politics! Now wot's this all abaht?

Smidgey · 28-01-2008, 05:17 PM

http://www.capitalreview.co.uk/pdf/k...y_table_12.pdf

Capital Review Online - Providing a wide range of regularly updated economic indicators for Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/internet...s2007_2008.pdf

The City of Edinburgh Council - Council Tax rates 2007/2008

It may take some weeding if you want to look at the specific parts yourself. However, the part I wish to point out is a total GDP of around 9 billion with an anual council budget of 800 million. Obviously some of the tax raised in each area goes to central government to pay for things such defence and the like.

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Smidgey Uber Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 2,195 Party: Libertarian Party	http://www.capitalreview.co.uk/pdf/k...y_table_12.pdf Capital Review Online - Providing a wide range of regularly updated economic indicators for Edinburgh, Scotland's capital city http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/internet...s2007_2008.pdf The City of Edinburgh Council - Council Tax rates 2007/2008 It may take some weeding if you want to look at the specific parts yourself. However, the part I wish to point out is a total GDP of around 9 billion with an anual council budget of 800 million. Obviously some of the tax raised in each area goes to central government to pay for things such defence and the like. __________________ How vain is man, who boasts in fight the valour of gigantic might! -Georg Friedrich Händel

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