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Originally Posted by Masque
I am one of the people who get them for free because of my medical exemption due to a chronic illness, but I am still annoyed that our parliament lets us pay when it allows the likes of Scotland to give them for free as my taxes go towards that as does every other UK tax payer.  |
As said: The Scots decided to have free subscriptions. That's money spent and out of their budget meaning it can't be spent elsewhere. It's not as if they get additional funds for free subscriptions. It's how they choose to allocate the money they've been given to spend.
As Russ suggested, you may well find that a poorer general standard of service as a result of it.