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“Some call it universality and say its time has passed, I call it human decency, and its time is now” ~ First Minister
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First Minister Alex Salmond
“SO LET US TELL THE LABOUR LEADERSHIP ABOUT THE REALITY ABOUT OUR FELLOW SCOTS.
“They don’t want something for nothing.
“They just want the right to live in a country which understands theimportance of society.
“A country that knows the value and not just the price of the serviceswe hold dear.
“These are the fruits not just of this party or this government, butthe fruits of a Scottish Parliament that chose to reflect our nationin these ways.
“It is the social contract between our Parliament and our people.
“SOME CALL IT UNIVERSALITY, AND SAY ITS TIME HAS PASSED
“I CALL IT HUMAN DECENCY AND ITS TIME IS NOW
“I would be tempted to say that Labour knows the price of everythingand the value of nothing.
“But they don’t even know the price of anything.
“These great gains of the Parliament, personal care, bus travel, an endto tuition fees, a free National Health Service, cost just over 3% ofthe Scottish Budget…………..
“And so Labour and Tory – the two great pillars of the Union – unitedin a death grip programme to a sweep away concessionary travel, freeprescriptions and education.
“Some in Holyrood think Labour’s new approach is clever. But conference, have no doubt, it is not wise.
“It is not wise to end the social solidarity in benefits to all the people. And it is not good politics to betray the fact that they willcontinue with Tory austerity if they ever returned to government.
“The STUC described Labour’s views as “extreme”.
“Last year Scotland lost a giant of the trade union movement and ofScottish public life. Campbell Christie was loved by many for hisprinciples, his humour, his courage and his wisdom.
“In an interview he gave just before his passing he said:
”People say we can’t afford things now but in 1948 we couldn’t affordthe NHS and the pension schemes but we did it and when you start tolook at the whole question of provision of support, you just need toremember how little there had been back then and how important it wasto make it happen.”
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Adrian Wait says:
IF Scotland leave the union, it will leave England with a TORY Reich! A Nightmare! Yet, I would be a supporter of the Nationhood of Scotland, I would vote for that and rid the land of Tories…. although the best of men are men at best… However, I wish Scotland all the very best on the Road to its Destiny. It is a Good and Decent Nation, not completely rotted by the Tory influence!
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IF Scotland leave the union, it will leave England with a TORY Reich! A Nightmare! Yet, I would be a supporter of the Nationhood of Scotland, I would vote for that and rid the land of Tories…. although the best of men are men at best… However, I wish Scotland all the very best on the Road to its Destiny. It is a Good and Decent Nation, not completely rotted by the Tory influence!