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Created by Buidhe ( talk). Self-nominated at 23:13, 22 April 2020 (UTC).
Buidhe. A very interesting article this, and never realized what the numbers were. For calibration, would it be possible to see what % the 10 billion is of the UK annual deficit (before the virus obviously), and as % of total UK GDP (I think the deficit is circa 0.3% of GDP), and as % of Irish GNI* (I think it is circa 5% of Irish GNI*, which is about Euro 210bn). That would additionally clarify that NI is not a major drag for the UK (although, still a drag), but a material drag for Ireland. Just a thought! Britishfinance ( talk) 21:13, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
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So I got into a back and forth with a guy on Quora who kept insisting that Northern Ireland's annual deficit is much less than an average of 10 billion pounds a year. So I made a deal with him - I told him that if he could cite some sources disputing this figure I'd run them by the editors of this article. He came up with this [4] this [5] and this [6].
I'm not really into this one way or the other so I'll let editors here examine these sources. Just keeping my word. Jonathan f1 ( talk) 22:22, 29 November 2021 (UTC)