Students and socialists were (quite rightly) celebrating this week, with the news that the SNP executive is going to fulfil its election promise to scrap the £2,289 ‘graduate endowment’ fee levied by the Labour-Lib Dem coalition in the first term of the Scottish Parliament.
Dear Humans,
For centuries, you have been watching us running about, climbing up and down trees and munching on nuts.
Little did you know that we too, have been doing some watching of our own and that in fact, we have a very good idea of what you should do to save yourselves (and possibly us as well) from a variety of unpleasantries, such as poverty, war, depression and environmental doom. "Smart" apes, heed our wisdom!
Yours,
The Squirrel Vanguard.
Monday 18 June 2007
SNP and the abolition of endowment
Comrade Neil Bennet comments on the recent decision by the SNP to abolish the £2200 endowment fee for students in Scotland.
From where i am this looks to be good news. I think the SNP's commitment to neoliberalism will depend on external political and economic factors as well as internal ones.
ReplyDeleteI still haven't the foggiest what the Scottish Greens are like, though I watched one of their two MSPs go apeshit during the debate on Trident -- it was hilarious. Ah, the wonders of the parlaiment channel. nowt but fucking politicans...
Back to the topic, I am optimistic about the outlook for Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. On Saturday the Daily Mail had a big headline about how outrageous the inequalities in NHS provision (the freebies we English don't get). But the payoff was that its bad that the english are envious because they'll want what the scots have and really, we can't afford it... Haven;t we heard that one before...
It will be interesting to see, especially if there's more where this came from, if policy changes like this could have an effect on England.
ReplyDeleteThere's already quite a few English people, especially near Wales thinking why can't we get free prescriptions as they do in Cardiff.
Maybe time for the SNP to set up English branches to capitalise on such goodwill!
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