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Kevin Hague
@kevverage.bsky.social
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Investor/chair of a couple of Scottish businesses; chair of constitutional think tank These Islands; keen analyst of Scotland’s economic data (particularly “GERS” #fml); occasional political commentator; runner, hill walker & dog lover - views own, obv
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · Sep 7
to be like any other normal European country, a fiscally autonomous Scotland would have to significantly increase taxes and/or severely cut public spending - this is the simple truth that much of the SNP’s rhetoric around GERS seems designed to obscure

www.these-islands.co.uk/publications...
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 15h
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 15h
highly recommended - but be prepared for a chilling, depressing and deeply unsettling read
www.ft.com/content/1377...
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 1d
Sunder is a consistent, measured voice of reason and he shows admirable calm in dealing with appalling attacks like this - this is more than “worrying”, it is shocking and outrageous
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 1d
this is just awful Sunder, i’m appalled to see what you are having to face up to
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 5d
that’s how we like it 🫤
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 5d
autumnal mornings are the best
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 9d
*it was 10 years ago (looking through some old photos)
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 9d
i went shopping in Ningbo, China* - saw this and thought of you …
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 10d
or his grasp of issues like the fact that HS2 investment (for infrastructure spending outside Scotland) triggered Barnet consequentials which directly *increased* Scotland’s block grant …
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 10d
unless commitment to the union is framed as being about “solidarity” with fellow UK citizens - between old mining communities of the Rhondda and Lanarkshire, former shipbuilding heartlands of Clydeside and Tyneside, etc?
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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 13d
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 14d
and for the record: i’m against those who try and persuade people to support breaking up the UK by deploying fallacious arguments and false grievances
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 14d
the renewables investments in Scotland that are supported by subsidies (contracts for difference) paid by GB bill payers as a function of the integrated GB energy market - those ones?
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 14d
and let’z not forget the Yes case was to assume £6.8 - 7.9bn a year of oil revenue for an indy Scotland … a figure that turned out to be massively over optimistic
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 14d
and breaking up the UK - forcing Scots to bear massive spending cuts and/or tax rises while also dismantling the GB energy market upon which the Scottish renewables industry depends - don’t forget that bit 👍
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These Islands @theseislands.bsky.social · 15d
The most serious failure of the SNP’s latest independence paper is that it completely ducks the question of how an independent Scotland would get its public finances onto a sustainable footing.
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 15d
bonkers
danneidle.bsky.social Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 15d
Big development on our July storyabout a dodgy tax relief claim by Dundee United and tax firm ZLX.

The club made a huge claim for R&D tax relief which said that 24% of the players' time, and 80% of the chef's time, was spent on "research and development".

Not credible.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15d
I assume Jenrick will be asked to confirm if he has a similar position on burning Bibles in public - it may be offensive but it should not be illegal.

But would he really pretend he would attend the court case to show solidarity & support to a Bible burner too? He surely would not.
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 16d
i have muted the person you’re responding to and will now do the same to you (“Macnaughton”) - pointless interacting when you are so resolutely opposed to simple economic facts getting in the way of your heart’s desire to break up the UK

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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 16d
i am resolutely positive about the values of unity and solidarity and the importance of informed debate - you only perceive me as being negative because i vocally oppose those (like you, it seems) who resort to misrepresenting economic facts in their desire to promote the separatist cause
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 16d
i see we’re now at the “if you believe in accurate presentation of basic economic facts then you should leave Scotland” stage of joyous and civic nationalism 🫤
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 16d
and if you’re reduced to telling me i should leave Scotland because i believe in accurately representing economic data… well frankly maybe go away and have a wee word with yourself?
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 16d
with the best will in the world, i refer you back to the *actual numbers* - how can you seriously seek to create a grievance out of these simple and undisputed facts: average revenue/head generated while benefitting from far higher than average spending/head?
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Kevin Hague @kevverage.bsky.social · 16d
i see you’re not interested in civilised debate - tbh when you’re arguing against your own Government’s National Statistics i suspect you know in your heart of hearts that you’re floundering

nothing wrong with wanting secession, but perhaps steer clear of lying about economic facts?

hey ho - bye
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16d
natcen.ac.uk/publications...
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