Cameron pledges to keep the Barnett Formula

The Herald:

[Cameron] said he wanted to sideline sensitive questions about Scottish
funding.

I'll bet he does. It appears that the Conservatives have earmarked Scotland as an important electoral battleground (Cameron must win Scotland if he wants to win Britain). The upshot of which means that the ongoing appeasement of the vociferous Scottish minority will be a priority for the Conservatives. But in appeasing a nationalist minority in Britain they could well increase English nationalism. The continuation of the Barnett Formula seems a strange Conservative policy when the tax threshold is higher than it has ever been; when most conservative commentators believe that the public sector in Scotland is grossly inflated, and; when Lord Barnett himself, and senior Tories, are repeating that it is an unfair way to distribute central funds.

Sitting here, in England, it looks as though the Conservatives are advocating the distribution of money, not on social need, but on the basis of pandering to nationalist sentiment. This nationalist appeasement policy - that benefits Scotland to the detriment of England (and to a lesser extent Wales) - has been tried before; it has been Government policy for the duration of New Labour's tenure, and it has not resulted in a decrease in Scottish nationalism, and has instead contributed to an increase in English nationalism.

Good luck to them. I for one won't be voting Conservative.