SNP BANNED LIST Ongoing

Memo to
Dear Joan McAggro
Head of Wasteland Security
SNP HQ
Free Calbania

My Dear Joan

Please add the following traitors to your ever expanding 2016 Deportation List:

1. The Institute of Fiscal Studies

For daring to publish the following:

The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) found that an independent Scotland would face about £2.5bn spending cuts or tax rises over 2016-17 and 2018-19 if Scottish ministers followed the spending course set out by the UK government.
The IFS suggested that the debt inherited by a Scottish Government would make it difficult for Scotland to plot a different fiscal course than the cuts in public spending pencilled in by the UK government over the next few years.
The UK government has forecast cuts to public service spending totalling 1.6 per cent of GDP in 2016-17 and 2017-18 – and in Scotland that would be the equivalent of £2.5bn.
On top of that, the IFS report suggested that under declines in North Sea oil revenues forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility, Scotland’s budget deficit could be 2.2 per cent further into the red than the UK as a whole in 2017-18.
The report said that to fill this hole would require a further £3.4bn of tax rises or spending cuts on top of the £2.5bn that would be required to follow UK spending plans.


2. The entire population of Dunfermline

For being "unpatriotic" by voting in a Labour candidate with a swing of 3000 votes just one week after my magnificent call to Freedom.


3. The entire population of Helensburgh

They'll all be wanting compensation and benefits when I shut down Faslane and Comrade Nicola doesn't have the budget to pay them so best to ship the lot of them off to Portsmouth with the submarines.

4. Gavin McCrone - economist

For daring to print the following about my inability to create an Oil Fund:

The inconvenient truth is that although Scottish onshore tax revenue is approximately equal to the UK average, public expenditure per head is over £1,000 higher. So tax revenue without the income from the North Sea would not cover present expenditure, if Scotland was relying on its own resources. In order to pay the oil revenues into a special fund, therefore, the onshore revenue and expenditure would need to be brought into balance either with a substantial cut in expenditure on top of the present cuts or by raising onshore taxes. 


5. Alan Cochrane - journalist

For daring to speak for the dignified majority.


Finally, no mention whatsoever should be made about Grangemouth. The whole incident exposed the fact that we politicians are virtually powerless in the face of big business and had to "pull together" in order to have the merest of influences on Ineos. Even if I get to be Life President of Free Calbania then there will be nothing I could do to stop banks, oil companies, fund managers or any other private enterprise scaling down or closing their Scottish operations.

No one must know this...........and, er, forget I ever used the phrase "pull together".

Many Thanks

Your Glorious Leader

Bravebelly
c/o Presidential Suite
Gleneagles Hotel