How Does Scot Govs budget work?

In 2022-23 Scotland reportedly raised £87.5bn in tax. However, the Scottish Government only received a budget back of £59.7bn, a difference of £27.8bn staying in London .Scottish Budget: 2024 to 2025 – gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

64% of revenue is reserved to London and 36% devolved to Edinburgh. While 41% of expenditure is reserved to London and 59% is devolved to Edinburgh.

The Scottish Government can borrow £3billion for capital expenditure in the term of a parliament with the annual limit for 2023/24 set at £450million. Resource borrowing is set at £500million annually. The Scottish Government legally can NOT overspend its budget outside of the agreed borrowing limits, which leads us to our next point. https://www.gov.scot/news/balancing-scotlands-budget/

It was reported for 2022/23 Scotland had a deficit of £19.1bn. The media and unionist politicians often either mistakenly or otherwise report this as Scot Gov overspending. However, it is a lie. There is some very interesting figures within Scotlands ‘deficit’, for example: the figure of £9.1bn under the name of ‘Reserved public sector debt interest’ is Westminster debt being allocated to Scotland, debt Scotland had no part in creating or spending. That is 47.6% of Scotlands deficit, almost half is being created by debt loading from Westminster. If this debt was not being allocated to Scotland, the nation’s deficit would go down from 9% of GDP to 4.7%. I would like to note an interesting point aswell. This debt Scotlands allocated actually stems from the 1707 Union. One of the terms was that Scotland would be payed £398,085 to offset Scotland being allocated a share of Englands debt for all of time. That in 2021 prices is £71,260,439million. As you can see, that was not nearly enough to offset the burden on Scotland of Englands debt, Scotland has payed more than £9billion more in one year on their neighbours debt than the whole amount that was supposed to offset it forever. https://www.gov.scot/publications/government-expenditure-revenue-scotland-2022-2023

Scotland is also allocated £4.5billion for defence, the UK government spends £1.9bn on defence in Scotland. £2.6bn of Scotlands money being spent outside of Scotland, where it would better be used in the country to bolster the nations defence.

I want to finish off on a question I want to leave you all with, first let’s look at the statement: Andrew Bowie Tory MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine admitted the same thing in an interview for the BBC. “We now tax oil and gas companies 75% on their profits that they make, that 75% tax has gone towards paying for half of everybody in this countries energy bills over the past winter. Oil and gas is important and it will be with us for the next 25-30 years.”

How can a nation of 5.5million that has 90% of the UK’s oil reserves and roughly 60-65% of the gas reserves subsidise 34million peoples energy bills for a whole winter but run a deficit and apparently be subsidised by its southern neighbour? My answer would be, it can’t. Someone is lying and in my opinion it’s the establishment in our neighbours capital that benefits tremendously by having Scotland shackled to it.