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Denise
Barsoom
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 Posted - 10/06/2007 : 13:32:36
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From the Sunday Times
English tax to fund free Scots universities
BRITISH taxpayers are to meet the £2 billion cost of reintroducing free university education in Scotland – but students from England and Wales will still have to pay the full fees...
The move by the minority SNP administration is likely to reignite the debate about the Union and fuel anger at the emergence of a two-tier system whereby a more generous level of public services in Scotland is largely funded by English taxpayers.
Really, the quicker this sick-man statelet goes its own way, how much better off we'll be both financially and politically.
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6127 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2007 : 13:40:49
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| You have to hand it to those canny Scots ... Wish our government cared as much about us. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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FUBAR
Barsoom
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Posted - 10/06/2007 : 18:44:59
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You have to hand it to those canny Scots ... Wish our government cared as much about us.
Those canny Scots ARE our government.......
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I came into the world with nothing and still have most of it left.. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6127 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2007 : 18:50:32
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"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Daveb
Earthsea
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Posted - 10/06/2007 : 20:11:32
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Not amused at all by this.
Scots get this and free OAP homes.
Welsh get free prescriptions while Englands costs go up.
When will we get something for the English beside more tax or stealth tax?
Send Brown back to Scotland.
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We're all doomed!
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nightbird
Calaspia
603 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2007 : 22:02:41
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The Scott's, Welsh and some Europeans need the extra help with education, their not as good as the English especially when it comes to the consumption of Alcohol.
Or will the English culture be slowly erased and finally eliminated by this blatant discrimination.
Na, we ain't worth wasting the money on, only supplying it for others |
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dom
Barsoom
108 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2007 : 22:21:10
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| And still the Scots will moan about the English and want independence. Does that mean we won't have to pay for their life of Reilly? |
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nightbird
Calaspia
603 Posts |
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thedelboy
Discworld
United Kingdom
1454 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2007 : 07:48:54
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| are the people on this forum that stupid?it is about time Scotland got something back,from the thieving British government;Thatcher closed the mines the steelworks etc etc,but still took the oil and gas revenues.So stop bloudy whinging!! perhaps you should look in your own backyards to find out whose fault all this is,as far as alchohol is concerned the scots are not all alkies;I find the comment racist. admin do something about the comment by nightbird it is offensive |
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thedelboy
Discworld
United Kingdom
1454 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2007 : 07:50:07
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keep on smiling |
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FUBAR
Barsoom
431 Posts |
Posted - 12/06/2007 : 10:31:02
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| Are you saying that Thatcher went round locking everything up so no-one could get in? People really have to get over the Thatcher is the cause of all evil syndrome, after all you voted her in........ |
I came into the world with nothing and still have most of it left.. |
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nightbird
Calaspia
603 Posts |
Posted - 16/06/2007 : 23:42:46
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What about England?
ENGLISH taxpayers will soon have to pay the bill for free prescriptions in Scotland, it emerged last night.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/view/10132/English coughs up for Scots free medicine
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thedelboy
Discworld
United Kingdom
1454 Posts |
Posted - 18/06/2007 : 13:28:02
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| Arf ARF I already get free prescriptionsAdmittedly the English should be treated the same as the Scots,James the 1st/6th on becoming king of England stated that the Scots and English must be "treated with equal favour"Scottish mps should not be allowed to vote in English parliament as obviously they are biased(English mps dont vote in the Scottish parliament do they?) |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6771 Posts |
Posted - 18/06/2007 : 13:44:38
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Originally posted by nightbird
Give them Independence, It will save England a fortune....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6739007.stm
Bang On Right.
Yes
Give them Independence.
New Labour the bankrupt party. |
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zaboo
Alagaësía
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25/06/2007 : 21:42:28
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Jock bashing! Thats not very nice of you all. We do pay taxes as well you know.
However I do think that free prescriptions for chronic illness should be for
everyone. I have asthma and therefore pay to breathe.
Would we be giving free prescriptions to any chronic disease which would
include self induced illness. alcoholics,smokers, druggies etc. Where do you draw
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Stung again!