there are some numbers that are uncontroversial in scotland this morning doc at 1 0! that is one number. 23 years is another. that morning doc at 1-0! that is one number. 23 years is another. that is the last time number. 23 years is another. that is the last time scotland number. 23 years is another. that is the last time scotland qualified - number. 23 years is another. that is the last time scotland qualified for l the last time scotland qualified for the last time scotland qualified for the world cup, 1988. they are now within touching distance and you can t half tell the fans are excited. the sfa website crashed last night with tickets for the game. a 1 0 victory over austria in vienna put in charge of their own destiny in group f. this challenge on che adams was looked at by var and when it was given lyndon dykes stepped up to score a crucial penalty. it was the only goal of the game and it takes steve clarke s side up to second in their qualifying group, with their closes
sector. this is what we desperately need, we are at a critical point at the moment. we have over 186,000 vacancies in the care sector and this is getting greater on a daily basis. it is exacerbated by brexit and eu workers going back and not we want to bring people into work in the sector, we have to go through many hoops at great expense. even a lot of the carers that we do require will not meet the criteria of immigration policy at present. if this is not helping us in any way to increase the workforce to make sure we can give a good quality of care. at present we are losing quite a number of staff going to the nhs. the nhs is valued more, the pay is small and it is very attractive to our care workers at present to move
which will become a new health and social care levy on your payslip and tax returns. this makes it the largest tax rise in more than 40 years. let s look at what it means for us. someone on £20,000 a year will pay an extra £130 annually. someone earning £50,000 will pay an extra £505. and what s also new here is that people over the state pension age who are working will also have to pay the new levy. the government says that s only fair. but does it go far enough? 0thers argue it s still the young footing a disproportionate amount of the bill. because of the way insurance is levied, and the fact that it s levied on earnings but not on pension income, it means that those people of working age and particularly younger people who ll be working for longer will pay more additional tax over their lifetime than older people. in fact, pensioners who are only getting pension income and no earnings won t be paying any additional tax as a result of these announcements. remember it s notj
against it, which you have said - simply cannot afford. if you do vote against it, which you have said you| against it, which you have said you welcome you are potentially denying extra funding which would go to the nhs and to social care. no, that is not the case. if we look at this and what other not the case. if we look at this .ic what other potential not the case. if we look at this . ic what other potential solutions to the issues, nobody would sensibly suggest that it is not good to have additional funds suggest that it is not good to have additionalfunds in relation to nhs and social care. in scotland, the scottish committee is putting significant additionalfunds into significant additional funds into both significant additionalfunds into both of these and anyone would welcome additional funding for public services. but the way that is funded is absolutely critical, and to fund that on the backs of the people who can least afford it is absolutely regressive, it s the wrong
the leap from where people are now and the challenging situation to where he says he is going to get to, which is very unclear. i am talkin: which is very unclear. i am talking to which is very unclear. i am talking to you which is very unclear. i am talking to you right - which is very unclear. i am talking to you right now, - which is very unclear. i am talking to you right now, wondering what you would do as the snp. how would you be funding this? well. what you would do as the snp. how would you be funding this?- would you be funding this? well, of course in scotland would you be funding this? well, of course in scotland the would you be funding this? well, of course in scotland the issue - would you be funding this? well, ofj course in scotland the issue doesn t exist in this way. in scotland we already have free personal care. there are lots of different ways we would be very supportive of looking at how we fund increases to public services. that is something that is abso