Scotland benefits while we pay out
On April 1st the cost of prescriptions in England went up to £6.85 per item. On the same day in Wales the charges were abolished.
In Scotland 92% of prescriptions are dispensed free of charge and MSPs only narrowly rejected a bill to abolish them completely in 2005. It is only a matter of time before they are abolished north of the border.
In Scotland pensioners are entitled to free public transport throughout the country at all times and Northern Irish pensioners have just been given the right to travel on public transport throughout Ulster and the Republic of Ireland free of charge at any time.
In Scotland ethe elderly are entitled to free personal care in the care home of their choice without having to go through means testing or selling their homes.
In Scotland cancer sufferers get the newest and most expensive treatments. The same applies to those suffering from dementia.
In England the same drugs are refused because the cost of the treatment is more than the value the English NHS puts on a life.
In England we will shortly be required to pay to have a satellite spy box fitted to our cars and pay per mile to drive on our roads. The same law won’t apply to Scotland and Wales so they will be able to drive in England was well as in their own countries without paying the road pricing tax.
The transport minister was elected in Scotland yet his department doesn’t have a say in what happens to transport in Scotland.
Taking into account the above and the many other services our neighbours receive it would be understandable for an Englishman to feel left out but there is no need because we get something that our neighbours don’t – the bill.
Stuart Parr
Telford
Shropshire Star: Scotland benefits while we pay out
! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.
Nice letter.
nice, concise and articulate well said that man!