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60 is neither "old" nor pensionable age, it's a totally random age to be doling out free travel as most 60 year olds are in full time work. Why throw £200m down the drain when it could be better spent elsewhere?

£200m ffs, we could build a couple of hospitals for that.
My Da works full time at 67 and can travel around Ireland free. It means he doesn't take the car which should be encouraged also?

And a couple of hospitals with 200m?
 
60 is neither "old" nor pensionable age, it's a totally random age to be doling out free travel as most 60 year olds are in full time work. Why throw £200m down the drain when it could be better spent elsewhere?

£200m ffs, we could build a couple of hospitals for that.
It's not totally random. It was brought in when the pension age for women was 60. Rather than discriminate against men the decided to give both free travel at that age.

The fact that successive despicable Westminster governments have deemed it necessary to work the population to death and raise the pension ages of both men and women is the real nonsense here.
 
I'm sure they are raging at all those free prescriptions and University places.
Free uni was thanks to Scottish Labour.

Prescription charges being dropped are good but nobody with an actual illness paid for them anyway. A trinket in other words.
 
Some ordinary medicines we used to pay £6 for actually cost the NHS £500.

Freeing up the £6 is a drop in the ocean.
 
Free uni was thanks to Scottish Labour.

Prescription charges being dropped are good but nobody with an actual illness paid for them anyway. A trinket in other words.
Oh dear. Here we go again.

Labour didn't scrap tuition fees in Scotland. They did away with the up front fees that were actually put in place by...Tony Blair's Labour government. They did this because the Lib Dems insisted on it or they wouldn't join them in coalition government. Instead they brought in a graduate scheme where students would pay after they graduated and made more than £10 000 a year. This meant that Scots students were paying more than English students because Scottish graduate course are 4 years, a year longer than the English equivalent.

It was Salmonds SNP government that scrapped all tuition fees.

Yer welcome.
 
Oh dear. Here we go again.

Labour didn't scrap tuition fees in Scotland. They did away with the up front fees that were actually put in place by...Tony Blair's Labour government. They did this because the Lib Dems insisted on it or they wouldn't join them in coalition government. Instead they brought in a graduate scheme where students would pay after they graduated and made more than £10 000 a year. This meant that Scots students were paying more than English students because Scottish graduate course are 4 years, a year longer than the English equivalent.

It was Salmonds SNP government that scrapped all tuition fees.

Yer welcome.
Here we go again...

The payments made by students were not for their tuitions. They were for a graduate endowment and abour half of students were exempt from repaying it.

Yer welcome.
 
Here we go again...

The payments made by students were not for their tuitions. They were for a graduate endowment and abour half of students were exempt from repaying it.

Yer welcome.
So the ones that paid it were charged for tuition then.

So tuition fees.

Okdokey

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