"Benefited from public spending" in this case means "paid a massive chunk of the failed English goverment's debts".
There is absolutely no reason why anyone north of the Midlands should be forking over a grand a year towards the cost of HS2 - a toy train that joins two towns in the south of England - but here we are, all the same...
There is no english government, so no english government debt exists either. And as I said debt isn't included in those figures.
And since you're now tacitly admitting I was right, I think we're done. Good luck with independence. Hopefully I am wrong and Scotland suddenly becomes a productive economic region...
There is absolutely no reason why anyone north of the Midlands should be forking over a grand a year towards the cost of HS2 - a toy train that joins two towns in the south of England - but here we are, all the same...