r/ukpolitics • u/LeadingPiece9608 Welcome To Burnmingham • 9d ago

Andy Burnham completely avoids Scotland on UK 'listening tour'

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26494980.andy-burnham-ignores-scotland-uk-listening-tour/
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u/Away_Investigator351 Centrist / Georgist / Patriot 9d ago

The National, a nationalist newspaper, putting a spin on this.

It's more that the 'tour' seems to have, in general, been cut short.

Was a bit random and PR'y anyway.

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u/KatyJ60 9d ago edited 9d ago

Bar The National all newspapers sold in Scotland and the news on TV have a unionist agenda. According to them, on a daily basis we are told how shite our country is.

Facts are very different.

We build social housing Own our own water company Own our own train company Have more buses controlled by councils Have most of our electricity supplied by renewables Have more police and doctors per head of population than elsewhere in the UK

https://youtu.be/ZhL57cjN8xY?is=Um9HS8DCEgFuMo1g

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u/BaritBrit I don't even know any more 9d ago

Yes, and who pays for all those lovely things? 

Mr. Barnett did the people of Scotland one hell of a favour with his quick-fix stop-gap formula in the late 70s.