This is complete nonsense. I've explained three times it would likely trade off money going to Scotland and Northern Ireland in exchange for increased constitutional authority. Purportedly this is what voters in those areas want? The position in England would be more similar to what an effective 'levelling up' agenda would see, which looks popular all round. Finally it would increase the visibility for the value of tax increases, making it easier for local politicians to sell sustainable public spending.“Most people would consider fairer”
So ‘hard working Londoners‘ getting to keep more of their money and ‘workshy northerners’ having to work harder or get worse services as transfers are reduced.
Unless you are expecting a surprising outbreak of altruism - if that altruism already exists how do you explain repeated voting for an austerity government?
Your point about division and bitterness suggests that the only person who would be bitter or seek to create division over such an arrangement would be you?
If your argument were true people would be demanding zero tax nationwide and to funs their own services themselves according to their own use. Absolutely nobody would want that l.