Another freebee we south of the border are subsidising...

​No its just down to the fact their government cares about people, the future etc whereas our government are evil **** who hate anyone with less than £5m in the bank

Give us peace from your racism.

Not quite I'm sure we pay our taxes as much as the next person :smile:

Also a myth as determined by LSE and the ACPO

So why not commend the Scottish Government for free prescriptions / uni places / Microsoft Office, and lobby your own uncaring government down there, who are only interested in looking after the privileged few. The only reason I can think some of you are shouting us Scots down is pure jealousy. What else can it be?

The EU bureaucrats you're probably referring to are actually elected you know. Maybe not directly by us but I don't recall Theresa May and her cabinet being directly elected by us either...

And for the record, human trafficking is the trade of humans usually against their will and for horrible things. Please don't belittle it for such petty arguments.

Because we've not had to deal with austerity like the rest of the UK?

It'll probably get worse as I suspect next year the snp will increase income tax, and the councils will be allowed to increase council tax.

Thought for a moment it was Microsoft relocating to Scotland was behind this .

You'd better hope you get your independence me laddie so that you can feel proud of giving your hard earned cash back to EU unelected bureaucrats making truck-loads of money out of all of us via legal human trafficking. A little bit of politics on HDUK. Who'd have thought?

Hope we'll be friends when Brexit is all sorted. https://youtu.be/mVy7faNKEtM:smile:

Another freebee we south of the border are subsidising...

Haha. Political and racial arguments on a post about kids getting free m$ office. Why is it some people find any excuse to vent their anger at their neighbour and not the people who actually take from them?

As you will hopefully see in a post that's being moderated! I swear theres nothing bad in my post! Your deal isn't political from my perspective. I think an only Scots deal has English people that come on and say we're being subsided and then Scottish people or people living in Scotland try to defend our policies. Again, I am truly sorry. :-)

Last comment.

So the person that's fulfilled your amazon delivery living in a tent in Dunfermline is in the same position as the investment banker with his swanky pad in central London. The government should pay for these drugs and ensure that any pharmaceutical company that takes advantage is penalised/fined etc as per a recent story on the governments website, I mean BBC.

To an extent the SNP are a disaster but they are genuinely the ONLY PARTY THAT CARES FOR SCOTLAND.

Labour and the Tories have their whole 'UK' party to think about. I would be more UK supportive if all the individual countries had more of an equal say but as it is, England ultimately calls the shots over everyone else.

I will not be commenting further. As I said earlier I'm sorry for reacting. The Scots aren't freeloaders, I don't dislike the rest of the UK etc but as things stand everything about the UK is broken. Take care cousins.....

I would agree with what you said but just don't believe this to be a political post ... others are dragging the NHS and prescriptions into this but it's a post about Microsoft office :laughing:

I find it really demoralising that some people are voting this cold and leaving nasty political comments.

Ultimately this deal is to help children's education by giving them the tools necessary to succeed, not everyone can afford a Microsoft office package on top of a new laptop/pc.

I'm sorry if your area doesn't offer something like this but this thread was started to make those eligible aware that it is there for use.

""why should anyone have to pay for drugs that make a difference?""

so there is more money available to buy and develop better drugs... are you against the nhs having more money. paying £8.40 for drugs is nothing yet when the government takes on the small payment on behalf of everyone it becomes a massive burden.. it's why Scotland is running a 9% spending deficit. the interest on this wipes out a massive chunk of the budget and it's getting worse. soon Scotland will have to go through austerity.

I love Scotland. my family are from edinbane on the Isle of skye. the snp are a disaster.

Do you know what? Our free prescriptions policy isn't as hard as I would like it but why should anyone have to pay for drugs that make a difference? Now I'm sure you're all now going to start giving examples of drugs that cost lots of money for little impact but the general stance still stands.

I'd also like to see the more wealthy pay more towards care, not get free buses etc but then the cost of initiating and running this would outweigh any savings.

Ultimately I'd like to see a citizens grant that everyone would be entitled to. It would cover all your basic needs so it would then be up to you to work, be a lazy so and so or help in your community to make a difference.

Devolution means different areas will make different spending choices. The same happens to a lesser degree with local authorities - one pays for different things than another.

It would be xenophobia.

It's not though... stating the until Scotland, Wales and/or Northern Ireland have independence and are not part of Great Britain it should be fair to expect that all children get the same benefits, that universities should charge the same and prescriptions should cost the same. Especially when thI country that pays the highest tax per head average gets the least spend per head.

Either way don't pull the racism card if you mean xenophobic.

It's actually quite refreshing to have Scottish availability highlighted, and then learn in the comments section that it's "also available in England and Wales". It's so often the other way about.

(And now I'm off to take my free, English-subsidised, meds, and nurse my paranoid celtic grievances)

​Scotland is running a 9% budget deficit. the biggest in the western world. poverty is rising and infrastructure spending is down... but at least they have free subscriptions and word...

and for students in Northern Ireland also

also works for students in Northern Ireland within the C2k system

https://ids.c2kschools.net/nidp/idff/sso?id=3&sid=0&option=credential&sid=0

With their C2K school username and password.

Follow the steps below:
From the computer you wish to install Microsoft Office on, you need to log in to MySchool by
clicking the following link (www.c2kschools.net)

As a Scottish teacher, teaching in Scotland, I took up this offer earlier in the year. It was a deal that Microsoft agreed on with the Scottish government. What a terribly ignorant comment to make, suggesting that those down south are the ones subsiding this fantastic offer??? We all subsidise it by being tax payers?!

Its a fantastic deal and be sure to snap it up before the contract ends!!

mods really need to get a grip of the anti-scottish sentiment from some of these crack pots, their comments have nothing to do with the validity of this deal and also some are downright offensive. a strongly worded moderator warning would suffice.

If you work for tesco you can also get it for 9.95 (professional) along with a few other program's that retail for £500-£1000

Microsoft made changes to its policy, meaning that all pupils can now benefit from free licences for Microsoft Office for their home computers and devices. This offer is at no additional cost to the Council.

some people really need to grow up, this site is about saving all of us money not a place to have cheap and immature digs at someone else. Like kingy16 has stated it's available for all, now has anyone bagged a golden deer yet.

Sorry to break up the hand bag fights at dawn fights but I live in England and received this deal last year. My children are at Secondary school in County Durham. BTW I am also Scottish by birth and find it ridiculous anybody could have an issue with this. This is being sponsored by Microsoft so that our children use their products as standard in later life.

​I agree. Fair play to the Scots. anyone who has issue with this would do best to make their views through who they vote for come election time

It's just how the government has chosen to spend funds. Your government could have easily done the same but didn't!

Nonsense Gordon. Scotland is getting this privilege, so it could be the Scots being racist against the English.

If you don't have anything nice to say don't bother commenting :innocent:

Just trying to help some people before they go and buy a Microsoft package they don't need to!

they already get too much

Most schools / colleges / unis should have this offer already.