Scottish Education minister Fiona Hyslop has announced that she is going to spend £25 million pounds recruiting extra primary level teachers to reduce class sizes from 30 to 18. This announcement comes in the shadow of the revelation that Scottish students will no longer pay tuition fees at all. us English however are stuck in over sized classes and paying 3 grand a year at uni. This surely isn’t fair.
Scotland in general since devolution has become increasingly confident in asserting its individuality from England. This has shown itself in many of the services it provides. For example free nursing homes. I have one point to make. If Scotland wants these higher standards of public service it can bloody well pay for them!
We all know the constitutional mess this government has created with Scottish MPs and voting, well it would seem now that they have created a system where Scotland gets a significantly higher standard of service and we English pick up the tab. Perhaps Financial devolution is needed too so that Scotland and the SNP can have a reality check.
