Prescription charges!!!!!!!

[suedarbo]

I've just seen on the news that prescription charges are going up by 20p.
I want to know as we are classed as the British Isles, why are they free in Wales and Ireland and Scotland from April but yet the English are still having to pay ?
This to me is a farce!!!

Sorry just fancied a rant

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by suedarbo

I've just seen on the news that prescription charges are going up by 20p.
I want to know as we are classed as the British Isles, why are they free in Wales and Ireland and Scotland from April but yet the English are still having to pay ?
This to me is a farce!!!

Sorry just fancied a rant

The Welsh & Scottish MP's vote in our parliament but we can't vote in theirs. Amazing how we let the minorities run us

[gynn]

....and of course the Welsh and Scottish Parliaments are using English money to pay for the free prescriptions. They don't raise enough themselves, so depend on grants from us!

[suedarbo]

That's scandalous and not fair!

[accyman]

they have always been free in wales its a fliping joke that our fees go up and they carry on for free and worst still some areas cant afford life saving medicines hence the lottery postcode issue regarding treatment at the expense of some taffy getting their paracetomal for free.

[accyman]

Originally Posted by gynn

....and of course the Welsh and Scottish Parliaments are using English money to pay for the free prescriptions. They don't raise enough themselves, so depend on grants from us!

yep they want indepenance yet still want our money

sounds like a few other countries dosnt it

[jaysay]

Some countries are independent, yet some are more independent than others I'm all for giving the Jocks and the Taffs independence but go the whole hog, complete severance. As for scottish and welsh MPs vote for legislation that only effects England is a total blood nonsense

[Barrie Yates]

Cut them loose and let them get on with life - without our funds to keep them alive.

[Boeing Guy]

So which UK Government, gave us devolution?

Amazingly it was the caring, sharing Labour Government of the late 90's
Shame Tony is more right wing than Dave and Nick

[cashman]

Dont forget.........Were all in this together.

[accyman]

Originally Posted by Boeing Guy

So which UK Government, gave us devolution?

Amazingly it was the caring, sharing Labour Government of the late 90's
Shame Tony is more right wing than Dave and Nick

and cameron just made things better allowing everyone free medicine except england who have to pay more to fund this decision.

CORRECTION

in england you can get free medicine as long as you can prove you wernt born here, on benefits but not sickness benefit you even have to pay when on that so that leaves the workforce and the ill of england paying for the rest of the UK's medicine and whoever sneaks through the channel tunnel or arrives on a bannana boat.

yup camerons putting his country back on track lmao

not that i was a fan of blair either but camerons in power now and he isnt doing jack for teh people of england only everybody else

[Mancie]

The tory cover up media machine is is full flow.. the headline news is that there was a vote in Wales just behind Libya.. yet the massive defeat of the tories and lib-dems in the by election is far behind .. a good day to bury bad news..but then again after barely 10 months of this lot it's par for the course
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PS for Jaysay.. don't be gettin all umpty when you read this intu morning.. the truth hurts!

[cmonstanley]

us scots put priorities in the right order we didnt vote tory plus we are spending money put aside from all the oil tax so the english taxpayer dont pay a thing for us.and if you did visit scotland you would fell at home anyway as there is a high population of english makes me laugh when people say we are spending their money when the scottish economy is propping up the rest of britain lol ie iol revenue from scottish waters..

[garinda]

Originally Posted by cmonstanley

us scots put priorities in the right order we didnt vote tory plus we are spending money put aside from all the oil tax so the english taxpayer dont pay a thing for us.and if you did visit scotland you would fell at home anyway as there is a high population of english makes me laugh when people say we are spending their money when the scottish economy is propping up the rest of britain lol ie iol revenue from scottish waters..

...and still, year after year, the population of Scotland continues to fall, despite the sweetners, subsidised by their benevolent English neighbours.

Still, at least the terror of Accrington's killing fields, meant at least one nervous ned returned there, to help stem the flow.

[garinda]