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k4kyv
10-31-2007, 01:25 PM
Wouldn't all Brits be happier if they lived north of the border?

Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party and Scottish First Minister recently seemed determined to stoke up separatism by promising free prescription drugs in Scotland. They also get free eye care and dental check-ups, and access to cancer drugs denied to patients in England.

Elderly Scots get free residential care while the English are often forced to sell their homes to pay for their care. Scottish students get free university tuition, while English undergraduates have to pay about £3,000 a year.

You can understand the English irritation. Pumped up with English subsidies, public spending in Scotland has doubled since devolution and will top £30 billion within the next three years. Why should the Scots get free drugs, when the English have to pay for their medicines? Won't this generosity ultimately be funded by the UK Treasury?

Divisions between the two nations were made more obvious by the creation of a separate Scottish Parliament in 1999,
which has powers over education, health, the environment and home affairs.

http://money.uk.msn.com/consumer/article.aspx?cp-documentid=6543296
w3bny
10-31-2007, 01:30 PM
GET IN MAH BELLEH!
G8ADD
10-31-2007, 01:37 PM
Yes, basically all the Scottish (and Welsh!) freebees are subsidised by the English taxpayers, but this should come as no surprise when you consider that many of the MPs in English constituencies have Scots names. Why the Scots should be so keen on seperatism when they actually run the UK for their own benefit has me beat! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

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Brian G8ADD
k4kyv
10-31-2007, 01:47 PM
Or could this be, as suggested by the writer of the article, an attempt to bribe the separatist-minded Scots into staying in the UK?
G8ADD
10-31-2007, 06:10 PM
Well, if its a bribe, it was proffered by a Scots dominated Parliament - it looks more like a form of nepotism to me!

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Brian G8ADD
W2ILP
10-31-2007, 07:30 PM
You have to respect the Scotch.
I learned from a history teacher that the Constitution of The United States of America was written under the influence of Scotch.

w2ilp (I Like Parliament)...even if it is under the influence of Scotch. #Don't worry about the UK treasury...Remember that it can support a bonny royal broken family, so why not everyone else's?.
M3JVA
10-31-2007, 08:29 PM
Never refer to someone from Scotland as Scotch.
Scotch is a drink, Scot or Scottish will save you from a black eye, trust me i learnt the hard way
NL7W
10-31-2007, 09:48 PM
Quote[/b] (M3JVA @ Oct. 31 2007,12:29)]Never refer to someone from Scotland as Scotch.
Scotch is a drink, Scot or Scottish will save you from a black eye, trust me i learnt the hard way
Free drugs and Chivas Regal -- a heck of a combination!