tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972114991869354050.post4894337250710519467..comments2024-02-01T14:56:24.725+00:00Comments on The Laird Report: Scottish Conservatives launch their manifesto aimed at 'winning over Labour voters', it seems that the Conservatives view Holyrood 2016 as their big chance to come in from the 36 year imposed exile of the Scottish people, leading Glasgow list Candidate Adam Tomkins really put his foot in his mouth when he said ‘higher education is a privilege not a right’, he might know law but he is shit at politicsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972114991869354050.post-44745920637122061302016-04-14T13:46:59.403+01:002016-04-14T13:46:59.403+01:00Hi Freddy
“I presume Mr Tomkins only opens his mo...Hi Freddy<br /><br />“I presume Mr Tomkins only opens his mouth to change feet”.<br /><br />I was at another BBC event at Pacific Quay, he was on the panel, he kept looking out the window behind him, I thought, what was he looking at?<br /><br />What it was is that Professor Tomkins didn’t want to be there, in replies he sounded bored, I asked him a question, in fact I could have wrecked him but let him off the hook by choice.<br /><br />“I have no problem with the reintroduction of prescription charges right enough George with the cost of generic paracetemol or ibuprofen being under £1 a hundred if you buy in Aldi or Lidl people should be doing this rather than writing scripts that cost a fortune to administer”.<br /><br />If it is short term illness, I can see a case for charging, long term and serious, I think this should be free via means testing, basically if your income is solely benefits then this should be met by the public purse.<br /><br />“You might need to only buy a couple of packs a time but certainly cheaper for the health service money which can be invested elsewhere eg things like that drug denied to those kids last week. Someone has missed the boat on that if you are going to reintroduce charges say where the money is going with genuine heart warming opportunities”.<br /><br />Sturgeon’s policy is bad, it was an election gimmick, however, this has struck a chord with the public which makes it more or less impossible to argue a case against and not be seen as the baddie.<br /><br />George<br />G Lairdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07634338820731652821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972114991869354050.post-90206194246886226672016-04-14T13:40:28.277+01:002016-04-14T13:40:28.277+01:00Hi Stuart
“I will for once take issue with a coup...Hi Stuart<br /><br />“I will for once take issue with a couple of your comments, yes Higher Education is good, but the problem is that while everyone focuses on academia, and degrees, I'd say that technical and science subjects are just as important”.<br /><br />If you dig back into my posts on higher education, you will see I am advocating 4 tier education, slimmed down uni’s, expansion of the college sector and community colleges, this might address your issue for technical and science.<br /><br />“Hence why we ended up importing the proverbial Polish plumber en masse”.<br /><br />My next point, I floated before the internal EU immigration policy to address that very issue.<br /><br />“As for 'Free' prescriptions, I have a problem with the likes of Brian Souter, and Nicola Sturgeon to name but two, being able to get 'Free' prescriptions, the better off should be paying for their prescriptions”.<br /><br />I totally agree, people like Brian Soutar and Nicola Sturgeon shouldn’t get 'Free' prescriptions or anything else which in reality should be earmarked for the poorest in society.<br /><br />I hope you will do a bit of digging into my back posts, most of this I have already addressed; the problem in this country is that politicians are trying to buy the election using public money, instead of addressing priorities.<br /><br />George<br />G Lairdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07634338820731652821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972114991869354050.post-80029516681958316662016-04-13T21:15:36.930+01:002016-04-13T21:15:36.930+01:00these clowns seem to have lost the fine art of pol...these clowns seem to have lost the fine art of politics , maybe its facebooks fault!<br /><br />CrookieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972114991869354050.post-29047579686084346132016-04-13T16:37:41.988+01:002016-04-13T16:37:41.988+01:00I presume Mr Tomkins only opens his mouth to chang...I presume Mr Tomkins only opens his mouth to change feet. I have no problem with the reintroduction of prescription charges right enough George with the cost of generic paracetemol or ibuprofen being under £1 a hundred if you buy in Aldi or Lidl people should be doing this rather than writing scripts that cost a fortune to administer. You might need to only buy a couple of packs a time but certainly cheaper for the health service money which can be invested elsewhere eg things like that drug denied to those kids last week. Someone has missed the boat on that if you are going to reintroduce charges say where the money is going with genuine heart warming opportunities. Freddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13010469973490025453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7972114991869354050.post-69535394078249303792016-04-13T16:24:32.834+01:002016-04-13T16:24:32.834+01:00I will for once take issue with a couple of your c...I will for once take issue with a couple of your comments, yes Higher Education is good, but the problem is that while everyone focuses on academia, and degrees, I'd say that technical and science subjects are just as important.<br /><br />Hence why we ended up importing the proverbial Polish plumber en masse.<br /><br />As for 'Free' prescriptions, I have a problem with the likes of Brian Souter, and Nicola Sturgeon to name but two, being able to get 'Free' prescriptions, the better off should be paying for their prescriptions.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11813530294541990030noreply@blogger.com