The Barnett Formula, Again

Nixon and China, I suppose.

Only Brown and Darling can tell the Scots once and for all to get over their peculiarly 1970s, wildly ahistorical self-definition in terms of (mostly imaginary) grievances, and so, among much else, to stop demanding an unconstitutional denial of equal British subjecthood to the people of England, a violation of everything that the Labour Movement was founded for, and a device for employing the middle and upper middle classes in the Central Belt to do nothing much, to the neglect of the poor, the working classes, the Highlands, the Islands and the Borders.

Will Brown and Darling pull it off? Or will the twin bourgeois curses of greed and self-pity win out, accompanied by the standard self-justifying drivel about how it is all somehow to do with helping the less fortunate?

Oh, and since a major capital project in England has to involve expenditure in Scotland equivalent at least ten per cent of that project's costs, does the reverse also apply when there is a major capital project in Scotland? What a silly question!