How much longer can the government in London allow the UK to slowly drift apart? The Universities in Scotland will soon be charging English students top wack fees to to study there. That is, £9,000 a year for a four year Scottish Degree, £36,000. Perhaps one could live with that if the English were served the same as the rest of Europe, but they are not.
Due to European law, the Scottish government has to treat the rest of Europe as though they were domestic Scots – they cannot charge them. However, a loophole lets them charge the English. So, university education in Scotland is free to all across Europe, except for the English!
Can I ask, has anyone in Scotland actually thought this through? The Scots have always bashed the English – ever since Culloden and before that too! The English have shrugged it off with a smile, but now a real resentment is building. Are we or are we not a United Kingdom or a federation that is growing looser by the minute – so loose it might just drift apart?
Just think:
- Scotland’s NHS is not being squeezed for cuts
- Scotland’s council tax is frozen for five years
- Prescription charges are free in Scotland
- So is Hospital parking
- Old age care is free in Scotland
- Scotland’s Local Government is not seeing thousands of redundancies
- Scotland gets appreciably more funding per head than England
- Scotland has it’s own focussed parliament
- I could go on…
I don’t blame the Scots, it is the British Government who have allowed this. The Scots have simply looked after themselves but the people of England have no one to look after them.
It is time that a Parliament of England sat once again in Westminster, with a sole purpose to look out for the interests of the people of England.
