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Archive for October 17th, 2007

17th October 2007

Follow the money

Who gets what, where and how was Harold Lasswell’s famous distillation of the meaning of politics. And having just heard Benn junior defending the UK Government’s decision to pay foot-and-mouth compensation to English farmers only – despite an earlier draft statement saying they would pay up for Wales and Scotland too, despite previous precedent and despite the outbreak having emanated from a UK Government laboratory – I think I know what he meant. If geo-politics in these islands used to be about ‘who rules’ it’s increasingly about ‘who pays’. We are fast moving from debates about legislative competence to cash: the Barnett Formula, corporation tax powers, borrowing powers, fiscal autonomy, the Oil Fund for Scotland, the peace dividend for northern Ireland. Continue reading Follow the money