How Wales Subsidies London And The South East Of England.

Hello there. Hope you're feeling well today.

In the midst of Brexit Eve turmoil and allegations of "Stupid Woman" by Corbyn (and let's be clear here Theresa May is a stupid woman. The sexism is not in the remark but there's no male equivalent) I'm going to talk about a subject that emerged yesterday.

A BBC report showed that there was more money spent by the lottery on three London boroughs than on the whole of Wales. It is of course a shocking statistic. What it means is that for Wales the National Lottery (including let's not forget those scratchcards) have become a stealth tax on Welsh families.

Wales in effect is subsidising London. Making London's life a little easier in comparison to it's own.

But the National Lottery is not the only example. I've already mentioned previously that Wales should abandon the monarchy and become a republic. Wales pays taxes so the Royal family can live lavish lifestyles and yet what does it get in return? Tourism? That is probably earmarked for Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle. After all when did anybody look at the wedding of "Harry and Meghan" and thought "You know what? We should visit Mumbles for a break."

What about the Prince Of Wales you will ask? Well what about him? He's also the Duchy of Cornwall and it's there that's the base for him to flog his organically produced tat. Wales does not get a look in...again.

What about the railways? Whilst South Walian train passengers find that on an intercity train journey from London the stabilisers are put on West of Cardiff as there is no electrification work continues on the Crossrail linking one part of the UK capital to the other. Whilst there is a proposed similar service for the South Wales lines this has not really started yet. So think whilst that included EU funding if Wales didn't help subsidise the London Crossrail through it's taxes it might have been able to built a much needed service much earlier.

And the point of all of this (and I really could go on) is that one of the arguments for Wales not becoming independent is that it would be too poor to survive. Perhaps it would be the case that it would be London and the South East of England that would suffer if Wales became independent as this subsidy would go back to the people living in Wales who through taxes maintain London/South East England services and investment in the first place.

Until the next time.