Where did it all go? - bullshit bingo for the politicians when did you claim your biggest expenses

ear	£ million	Year	£ million
1980-81	3,764	1988-89	2,616	1996-97	2,891	2004-05	5,183
1981-82	6,125	1989-90	2,007	1997-98	2,509	2005-06	9,384
1982-83	7,665	1990-91	1,979	1998-99	1,856	2006-07	8,924
1983-84	8,358	1991-92	647	1999-00	2,444	2007-08	7,464
1984-85	11,082	1992-93	858	2000-01	4,455	2008-09	12,925
1985-86	10,132	1993-94	1,047	2001-02	5,426	2009-10	6,491
1986-87	3,571	1994-95	1,374	2002-03	5,097
1987-88	4,055	1995-96	1,667	2003-04	4,284

1. Source ONS Public Finance Statistics

These are big numbers - and for those who say Scotland doesnt pay it way.....you are right, the spreadsheet is run out of London. For those in London who say they pay too much, can I remind you London weighting means you all earn too much and as a result are likely to pay more tax. If London weighting did not exist then you wouldnt pay so much for property and you wouldnt inflate your prices. Try living on the yorkshire moors or up north in Scotland and there is no cheap transport and fuel costs for cars, heating and lighting are 35% of your income.

As socialists Scotland have been happy sharing the oil revenues with the rest of the UK, but recently we have just got really pissed off. London ministers have had the oil revenues for so long they genuinely believe they are Whitehall's oil revenues. I think that is where it goes a bit pear shaped and why at least 20% of that 45% who voted for independence will never trust a governing class based in Whitehall again.

Scrap the Barnet formula, split the oil revenues 50%/50% with Scottish and UK parliaments. As we were told all along it runs out soon so giving away half of something that runs out soon is a bargain.