They did manage to nationalise Scotrail and roll out u22’s bus travel. Aside from that it looks like everything else was either abandoned, failed or significantly paired back.
Hopeless.
Wild that they kept the charade going for so long
A proper national care service would need additional funding of ~another third of NHS funding. We don’t have the money for it
Society has to change – multi-generation households will become the norm, where grandparents provide free childcare and parents look after the grandparents
The post war period of 80s-2008 where we had a young population, lots of workers and not many pensioners was a blip. Old people being able to live on their own with the state providing all care, all healthcare, and pay for everything else through pensions is over.
In 1970 we had 4:1 workers to pensioners. It will soon be 2:1, and those workers are worse off when it comes to disposable income
The snp couldn’t arrange a prayer in a mosque.
Won’t be the only “policy promise “ the gets quietly dropped when they actually do their arithmetic before opening their mouths
Might be viable if everyone was in a family relationship – the idea that “we looked after our elderly” before is bogus. In the past it was a few years after retirement that you would fall off the perch – now it’s living longer and in poorer health – society and people are not wired for that.
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Kinda inevitable really, only the SNP were supporting it
How many tens of millions down the drain on something they couldn’t define, couldn’t explain and couldn’t fund?
Shambles upon shambles.
They didn’t listen from the word go. Just charged on spending ££££ when it was a bad idea from the start.
Presumably this is because they need the lib dems to pass the budget.
But that does mean almost all the major policies and projects from the ’21 manifesto have now either failed or been abandoned.
What is the point voting for a government which doesn’t keep any of its promises?
Edit- looking at this list:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-56750867.amp
They did manage to nationalise Scotrail and roll out u22’s bus travel. Aside from that it looks like everything else was either abandoned, failed or significantly paired back.
Hopeless.
Wild that they kept the charade going for so long
A proper national care service would need additional funding of ~another third of NHS funding. We don’t have the money for it
Society has to change – multi-generation households will become the norm, where grandparents provide free childcare and parents look after the grandparents
The post war period of 80s-2008 where we had a young population, lots of workers and not many pensioners was a blip. Old people being able to live on their own with the state providing all care, all healthcare, and pay for everything else through pensions is over.
In 1970 we had 4:1 workers to pensioners. It will soon be 2:1, and those workers are worse off when it comes to disposable income
The snp couldn’t arrange a prayer in a mosque.
Won’t be the only “policy promise “ the gets quietly dropped when they actually do their arithmetic before opening their mouths
Might be viable if everyone was in a family relationship – the idea that “we looked after our elderly” before is bogus. In the past it was a few years after retirement that you would fall off the perch – now it’s living longer and in poorer health – society and people are not wired for that.
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