Scottish universities are the best in the UK at converting their research into busine

[sasguru]

Mind you innumeracy seems to be quite a Scottish phenomenon

[scooterscot]

Population of Greater London is 12 million, of Greater Manchester 2.5 million.
So if productivity was same, and you take income tax as a proxy for that, income tax in London would be about 5 times Manchester's.
By your figures it actually is approx. 7.7 times.

I shudder to think what nonsense you are providing your German "clients". Long may you be our secret weapon abroad, undermining German industry with your innumeracy.
What a moron.

Your population sizes are wrong.

The fool chatters, whilst the wise man listens.

[eek]

Population of Greater London is 12 million, of Greater Manchester 2.5 million.
So if productivity was same, and you take income tax as a proxy for that, income tax in London would be about 5 times Manchester's.
By your figures it actually is approx. 7.7 times.

I shudder to think what nonsense you are providing your German "clients". Long may you be our secret weapon abroad, undermining German industry with your innumeracy.
What a moron.

Source? You seem incredibly good at quoting bollox inaccurate figures without reference to where you got your data from.

And that for me is why you will always be King Cretin.

But to demonstrate what most people expect

Greater London Population = 9,787,426 (2011 census via Wikipedia)

[Bunk]

Your population sizes are wrong.

The fool chatters, whilst the wise man listens.

Wikipedia gives London's metropolitan area as having a population of 15 million, and Manchester's 2.5 million, so a ratio of 6:1. The income tax ratio is still 7.64 though, so London is still paying over the odds.

Edit: The income tax comes from Scooter's figures so I take no responsibility for it.

[sasguru]

Your population sizes are wrong.

The fool chatters, whilst the wise man listens.

Source? You seem incredibly good at quoting bollox inaccurate figures without reference to where you got your data from.

And that for me is why you will always be King Cretin.

Greater Manchester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greater London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Actually I was being generous with calling the pop of London 12 million. The 2nd link calls it 8 million.
Which means ScooterDunce's point is even more wrong .
The second link also confirms, what everyone knows, London adds the most GVA per capita.

I find it scary that people like you are making some sort of living from numbers.

[sasguru]

Source? You seem incredibly good at quoting bollox inaccurate figures without reference to where you got your data from.

And that for me is why you will always be King Cretin.

But to demonstrate what most people expect

So your figure of 9 million only confirms my point more emphatically, but you fail to realise that.
Feck me, you're stupid.

[sasguru]

Wikipedia gives London's metropolitan area as having a population of 15 million, and Manchester's 2.5 million, so a ratio of 6:1. The income tax ratio is still 7.64 though, so London is still paying over the odds.

Edit: The income tax comes from Scooter's figures so I take no responsibility for it.

Yes even on the largest figures for London, my point still stands.
I can just imagine eek and scooterdunce scratching their heads. Doh!
It's like Dumb and Dumber.

[minestrone]

Public sector numbers look higher as several large industries have not been nationalised, that is quite different to the state giving an uneconomic area some jobs out of preference.

[eek]

So your figure of 9 million only confirms my point more emphatically, but you fail to realise that.
Feck me, you're stupid.

No just picking you up on facts. Once I see someone using crap figures as part of an argument I switch off and treat the entire argument as crap and not worthy of attention.

If fact 1 on page 1 is obviously wrong why on earth do you think anyone will assume that the rest of the argument has any more validity (and bother to read any further)? And you've made that exact mistake twice in the past week and in the latter case I applied the ignore rule.

[minestrone]

We do like fags, booze and sugar though.