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but but but funny enough

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i i was this subject in my mind recently

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i was dr

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came across my radar recently because my

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son was doing

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his modern studies higher and one of the

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subjects that he was doing was he

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already did an essay on was about health

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and equality

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and essentially what it said was that

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people in

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the east end of glasgow and i know in

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parts of airshire but their life

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expectancy was into was in the air

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in the early 60s and what it said in his

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modern studies thing

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in school was that the life expectancy

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in lindsay

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you're just a few miles away on the

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other side of glasgow was i think 78 or

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80 or something like that

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now there is a challenge of politics not

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to reduce

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life expectancy in lensing but to raise

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the life expectancy and to raise the

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prospect and to

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raise the educational achievements of

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people

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in the places that have been deprived so

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the same story emerges this week

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in in the in in the scottish parliament

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but the comparison the nationalists make

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is not between the east end of glasgow

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and lindsay

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the comparison they make is between

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scotland and harold and harold

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now the thing about harold for the

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avoidance of doubt

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is it's in england it's in posh england

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so the conflict for nationalists is

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between scotland as a whole

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including the people in lindsay and

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harold

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now in in a nutshell there is the

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argument

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now they have all the powers that they

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could ever have and a great deal of

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money to go with it

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over the national health service over

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education

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over all the tools which are needed in

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order to address

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that inequality within the scottish

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society but they have no interest in

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doing so

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because all they want to do is to turn

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people in scotland

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against people in england on the basis

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of england as harold

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well scotland isn't the isn't the east

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end of glasgow or lindsay

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there's a difference within scotland but

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england isn't harold

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england is liverpool and manchester and

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newcastle there is more but are more

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people living in poverty within 10 miles

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of the palace of westminster than there

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are in the whole of scotland

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and is there are their needs the same as

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the people in lindsay

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any more than the people in the east end

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of glasgow are there needs to keep

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people in harrow it's a nonsensical

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thing but it comes

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and they love to say they're not racist

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and they're not anglophobic

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but when they know perfectly well with

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exactly the same

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statistics exist within scotland why do

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they not use the example within scotland

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and say this is a problem to be

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addressed

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why do they pick scotland against

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england in order to make that false

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analogy that is the question