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Originally Posted by nomadking
Until recently, Wales and Scotland had so much extra money they could dish out things like free prescriptions without finding the money from other areas. Nowadays the extra money has already been allocated elsewhere and so they do have to find it from other places.
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Oh please
Do you honestly think the devolved sections of the UK get a huge extra wodge of cash basically stealing food from the mouths of poor, starving English folk?
They get broadly the same amount and considering other factors like it's greater geographical area it's not really a huge difference.
The free prescription thing is a fairly useful gimmick hat isn't actually that expensive to implement. The powers that be up here and in Wales decided that it would be better to do that and do without other things.