but but but funny enough
i i was this subject in my mind recently
i was dr
came across my radar recently because my
son was doing
his modern studies higher and one of the
subjects that he was doing was he
already did an essay on was about health
and equality
and essentially what it said was that
people in
the east end of glasgow and i know in
parts of airshire but their life
expectancy was into was in the air
in the early 60s and what it said in his
modern studies thing
in school was that the life expectancy
in lindsay
you're just a few miles away on the
other side of glasgow was i think 78 or
80 or something like that
now there is a challenge of politics not
to reduce
life expectancy in lensing but to raise
the life expectancy and to raise the
prospect and to
raise the educational achievements of
people
in the places that have been deprived so
the same story emerges this week
in in the in in the scottish parliament
but the comparison the nationalists make
is not between the east end of glasgow
and lindsay
the comparison they make is between
scotland and harold and harold
now the thing about harold for the
avoidance of doubt
is it's in england it's in posh england
so the conflict for nationalists is
between scotland as a whole
including the people in lindsay and
harold
now in in a nutshell there is the
argument
now they have all the powers that they
could ever have and a great deal of
money to go with it
over the national health service over
education
over all the tools which are needed in
order to address
that inequality within the scottish
society but they have no interest in
doing so
because all they want to do is to turn
people in scotland
against people in england on the basis
of england as harold
well scotland isn't the isn't the east
end of glasgow or lindsay
there's a difference within scotland but
england isn't harold
england is liverpool and manchester and
newcastle there is more but are more
people living in poverty within 10 miles
of the palace of westminster than there
are in the whole of scotland
and is there are their needs the same as
the people in lindsay
any more than the people in the east end
of glasgow are there needs to keep
people in harrow it's a nonsensical
thing but it comes
and they love to say they're not racist
and they're not anglophobic
but when they know perfectly well with
exactly the same
statistics exist within scotland why do
they not use the example within scotland
and say this is a problem to be
addressed
why do they pick scotland against
england in order to make that false
analogy that is the question