Great News In Scotland

[maggiebee]

1. Under 22s will be able to access free bus travel in Scotland from January 31 2022, the government has announced.

2. Young people in Scotland under the age of 26 are now eligible for free NHS dental treatment, after the SNP Scottish Government fulfilled its election pledge to scrap dental charges.

3. Hospital car parking charges are set to end permanently in Scotland.
The Scottish government has struck deals worth £35m to buy out the car parks at Ninewells
Hospital in Dundee and Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Negotiations are also "progressing" to take over the site at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Well done the SNPs, delivering as promised.

[Sam1960]

Under 22's getting free bus travel in Scotland wasn't a promise from the SNP !!

It was one of the stipulations from the Greens for getting the 2020 budget passed in Holyrood

[ynnafymmi]

Bannockburn happened a long time before the Scots had to rely on the English taxpayer to fund our lifestyle though Mozz.Without the handouts from England, Scotland would be bankrupt.

[goodgoalie]

Have a read of this page (it will take a while), then come back and say where the world would be without the Scots:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries

[naomi24]

Or the English come to that .....

[Mozz71]

Ynna, I was ralking about the bickering in this thread, not the details of the OP.

[Peter Pedant]

// has struck deals worth £35m//

well done SNP delivering with London moolah

[Spicerack]

Walked from Glasgow to Inverness when I was 17 in a snowstorm.
Now begloved, 22yr old Malcolm has a momentary seizure when he thinks he lost his wee bus pass.
I'm still shaking from my dental check-up, he moans to himself, without having to walk half a mile home through Sturgeon Park.

[davebro]

//Walked from Glasgow to Inverness//

170 miles - musta been a long snowstorm (even up yon)!

[AZardoz]

And it was uphill both ways.

[Spicerack]

It's called poetic licence, dave. I might have had the odd lift but unlike Malcolm I was willing to have a go. And I had to walk through Aviemore in a snowstorm.

[1ozzy]

When I was young etc, etc.
I didn't have a poetic licence.
Let alone a drivers licence or a free bus pass, those were the days my friends.

[roadman]

the english are so ignorant arent they lol they thinkl they run great britian well you see the scottish welsh and nirish all pay tax to somewhere get off your high horses lol

[ToraToraTora]

Mozz: "This is like Bannockburn all over again ☺ " - you mean Culloden surely.

[ToraToraTora]

goodgoalie 23:29. you can multiply that by 10 for England.

[ToraToraTora]

roadman: "the english are so ignorant arent they lol they thinkl they run great britian well you see the scottish welsh and nirish all pay tax to somewhere get off your high horses lol " - we do run it and pay for it me old china. It's only Blair's devolution folly that gets you all so uppity.

[naomi24]

As I said, Scottish pride seems to be a thing of the past in some quarters.

[webbo3]

its only free to the recipient, it doesn't mean nobody pays, there is a cost somewhere.
But where will the money come from.?

[roadman]

toratoratora to insult the scottish people because you dont like the government is not very fair it makes you seem very boisterous

[Jackdaw33]

I think we know where the money will come from; HM Exchequer, amply filled by Engkish taxpayers.

[ToraToraTora]

Roadman: "toratoratora to insult the scottish people because you dont like the government is not very fair it makes you seem very boisterous" - where have I insulted the Scottish people? I am only responding to the daily anti English rhetoric and general sneering hatred of the English. I love the Scots I have many Scottish friends. been there, played rugby there and with Scots in my team. My beef is with what that mad woman nationalist is doing to your country and her blind supporters.