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Originally Posted by harryaldridge
Also on the point about Scotland getting all sorts for free that the English do not - with devolution you will end up with different nations adopting different policies and giving their residents different entitlements, that is the point of devolution; however people get angry that it is paid for by a massive English subsidy which is out of date. We propose to redress the funding balance, but variations in policy will still exist.
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I am not at all happy about a situation coming about whereby people in England who live on the border with Wales are (allegedly) being stopped from claiming free prescriptions in chemists just over the border in Wales where prescriptions do not cost anything (because they have a doctor in England and live in England). This sort of division is not what a United Kingdom should be all about. It is also unfair on English people. Hospitals in England but close to the border with Wales are, of course, not refusing to take patients from just across the border in Wales.