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Old 28-04-2012, 17:37   #10
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Re: £7.65 now for a prescription?!

Possibly the same reason a lot of people are saying the same thing in Scotland. The pot isn't bottomless; free prescriptions for all means someone else is missing out on some other service. The devolved administrations have so far managed to avoid cutting public spending in quite so obvious a way as has occurred in England and across the UK in non-devolved areas but the creative accounting can't go on forever. Wales cannot raise its own tax; Scotland can, a bit, but never has ... the maths is irrefutable. Westminster gives them less, they have to spend less. Some time in the next couple of years the excreta is going to impact upon the air cooling device in spectacular fashion and hard choices will have to be made about which bits of our socialist utopia we want to go without. Given that the poorest and most vulnerable in our society were already able to avoid all, or some, of their prescription costs, the universal free prescription could very easily be made to look untenable.

I predict this will all kick off in Scotland just in time for the independence referendum, so the SNP can accuse nasty London of choking off the cash flow that rightfully belongs to Scotland.
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