Your attitude is typical of many in this respect. (Your attitude is thankfully rare in how your bigotry clouds your thoughts.).

Governments don't make equality of opportunity, people do. Parents, teachers, youth leaders, elder siblings. Role models make equal opportunity. Your incessant whinging about governments being to blame is misplaced and if people listened, unhelpful.

Yes, you are a builder. Congratulations. I'm an electrician. So what? That it is many years since I was on a coal face is neither here nor there. If people want to get on and they have 80% effort and 20% luck, they will, regardless of who sits in Westminster, Holyrood or the local council offices.

The students I teach (two days a month, I'm not a full time prof) come from all backgrounds and the only influence government decisions make are about being saddled with more debt at the end of it coupled with lower pay for doctors compared to even ten years ago. But you know what? It doesn't worry them because they are getting on with it rather than crying about how the government doesn't spoon feed them.

You whinge about English people living next door. They don't whinge when a foreign junior doctor gets a training number and they don't. They just say they have to try harder next time. This university is sited in one of the most poverty stricken cities in The UK.



Your self assurance that a Scottish government with or without the safety net of The UK will sing to your bitter tune is more than misguided, it's delusional.