Wednesday 9 July 2008

Scotland playing petty politics with the people

Military veterans may be given free bus passes

Some 20,000 of the country's 600,000 former services personnel may now be eligible – while ministers also confirmed yesterday that there would be no changes to the existing free bus travel enjoyed by 1.1 million over-60s and disabled people.
Labour claimed last month that £10 million was being removed from the concessionary fares budget after ministers published figures for the next three years.
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Read these proposals carefully. In England no-one has yet answered the question, what happens when this three year moratorium on free travels ends?
As laudable as this scheme appears, is this not just another sop at the gullible Scottish electorate?

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