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SNP Government plan for tuition fees in ruins | Better Together

SNP Government plan for tuition fees in ruins | Better Together

David Caldwell is the former Director of Universities Scotland.

The SNP government wants an independent Scotland to keep charging tuition fees to students from the continuing UK (yes, the UK would continue, just without Scotland) but not to students from any other EU country. That plan is now in ruins.

It already looked a non-starter. Every legal expert and senior EU official who had expressed a view publicly agreed that it did not comply with EU law. Even the legal opinion obtained by Universities Scotland, much cited by Scottish Ministers, stated explicitly that “RUK students will require to be treated no differently from other EU countries in a post independent Scotland”.

The Scottish government says that it has legal advice on the subject. Alex Salmond has been asked to disclose the source and content of that advice, but he has refused. It is hard to believe he would be so timid if he had authoritative advice supporting his case. On those occasions when he actually has some evidence to support his assertions, even when it’s just one opinion against numerous others taking the opposite view, has he ever been reluctant to produce it? 

Now the last shred of credibility the plan might have had has been demolished by the work of Sir David Edward. Sir David, as both a distinguished former judge of the European Court of Justice and a Professor of Law, is uniquely well placed to provide a definitive opinion.

His analysis is both thorough, based as it is on a careful examination of legal principle and all the relevant case law, and intellectually rigorous. It leads him to conclude that the SNP government plan is “shot through with confusion, inconsistency and irrelevance”, and that it would be incompatible with EU law and could not survive challenge in the European Court of Justice.

The Unsurpassed Intimacy of Tested Faith, My Uttermost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers

Every time you venture out in your life of faith, you will find something in your circumstances that, from a commonsense standpoint, will flatly contradict your faith. But common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense. In fact, they are as different as the natural life and the spiritual. Can you trust Jesus Christ where your common sense cannot trust Him? Can you venture out with courage on the words of Jesus Christ, while the realities of your commonsense life continue to shout, “It’s all a lie”?

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John 11:38-44New International Version - UK (NIVUK)

Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead

38 Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 39 ‘Take away the stone,’ he said.

‘But, Lord,’ said Martha, the sister of the dead man, ‘by this time there is a bad odour, for he has been there four days.’

40 Then Jesus said, ‘Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?’

41 So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, ‘Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.’

43 When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth round his face.

Jesus said to them, ‘Take off the grave clothes and let him go.’

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One in three parents cutting back on food to pay for home

One in three parents cutting back on food to pay for home

A leading homeless charity says almost 900,000 parents in England are resorting to skipping meals - to afford to pay for their homes.

Shelter says around three million are generally cutting back on food to save cash.

They spoke to a women who only wanted to be identified as Katherine.

"My husband and I don't have breakfast because we can't afford it, and we miss evening meals two or three times a month to help with the mortgage," she said.

She added: "We've really had to cut back on the basics, and I even had to send our daughter to school in an old uniform that I knew was too small; it made me feel horrible.

"We are already at breaking point, so I honestly don't know what we'd do if our financial situation got worse, it really frightens me."