Scottish Government's Deposit Return Scheme could see drinks prices in Scotland rise by a third
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Shoppers face price hikes on drinks by up to a third under the Scottish Government’s controversial drinks recycling scheme, which has been compared to a poll tax on the poor.
The Sunday Mail can reveal the cost of common items such as beer, water and fizzy juice will soar way beyond the extra 20p-per-item recycling fee when the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) is launched in August.
Former cabinet secretary for rural development Fergus Ewing said he was astonished by the latest revelation and launched a blistering attack on the SNP and Greens scheme.
The MSP said: “I never dreamt the party I have worked for for half a century would bring in a policy akin to the dreaded poll tax from Margaret Thatcher.
"In the worst cost-of-living crisis in modern times, the public are entitled to expect their Government will not make things even worse by policies that will push up prices even more, yet that is precisely what the Deposit Return Scheme will do."
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Well you chose a leader whose religion is against alcohol, he's hardly going to go out of his way to make alcohol more affordable.
Like Sunak whose religion is against consumption of beef?
@@ScottishRoss27 First of all I'm vegan, so that wouldn't bother me, but I've not seen anything about Sunak stopping anyone eating beef but I have seen Dutch farmers having a hard time because of this silly EWF green nonsense, by the way, I believe people should be able to choose what they want to eat and drink.
@@nightowl7459
''this silly green nonsense'''
Price Per KWH
£92.50 England's Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station
£57.50 Scotland's Moray East Offshore Wind Farm
= 37,8% cheaper.
Worlds First achieved by a Scottish Energy Company by generating 50GWH of electricity from Tidal Power, in the Pentland Firth between Orkney & Mainland.
ScotWind is the Worlds largest offshore wind leasing round.
Construction starting soon in Argyll on new 420,000 hectare
2nd Cruachan Hyro-Electric power plant.
(if planning consented by Scots Parliament.)
New Electric Vehicle firm Munro Vehicles new MK1 4×4 starting production in East Kilbride this year.
New Electric Vehicle firm HVS Systems is developing its hydrogen powered trucks in Glasgow.
New Electric Vehicle firm Mako Aerospace developing worlds first
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St Andrews University Scottish Hydrogen Train Project has tested the First Hydrogen Powered Train.
Montrose Port is the first Scottish port to provide shore power to offshore energy vessels.
New 214,000 sq ft Dundee Battery Energy manufacturing facility in construction.
New 220,000 sq ft Whisky SuperFactory in construction in Lanarkshire.
1st Whisky Distillery in Orkney for 138 years opening
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new 40,000 sq ft National Robotarium opened in Edinburgh,
to help research & development of new products in robotics, autonomous Systems, assisted Living, health-tech, fin-tech & agri-tech.
The Only aluminium smelter in England was left to close in 2012.
Fort William aluminium Smelter factory was saved by ScotGov in 2016.
now the Only Smelter in UK giving Scotland advantages over UK.
The Only manufacturer in the UK of coated magazine paper is in Ayrshire.
New manufacturing facility in Ayrshire for new cattle feed addictive Bovaer, which is being globally manufactured in Scotland.
Latest Employment Figures
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Slovakia 71,8% 2,623 million
Finland 72,9% 2,582 million
Ireland 73,2% 2,574 million
@@ScottishRoss27 quick look over there
@@gavinmcinally8442
Outperforming struggling England at pretty much everything.
Employment Rate
England Scotland
March 76% 76,5% Outperformed England by 0,5%
February 75,9% 76,6% Outperformed England by 0,7%
January 75,8% 76,1% Outperformed England by 0,3%
2022 International Exports in Goods Worth Per Head of Population
England £267,3 Billion £4730 56,5 million
Scotland £35,7 Billion £6611 5,4 million
= Outperformed England by 28,5% per head.
Inward Investment Projects Secured
2022 England 819 Up 0,8% Scotland 122 Up 12%
2021 812 107
Outperformed England by 11,2% in the year
100% Small Business Rate Relief
Scotland premises worth £15,000 or less
England premises worth £12,000 or less
= Scotland's is worth 20% more
Starting Salary England Scotland =
Teacher £28,000 £31,584 11,4%
Nurse £27,055 £30,229 10,5%
Police Officer £23,566 £28,074 16,1%
Train Driver £24,304 £27,483 11,6%
Rail Fares (2 adults open return)
£34.40 NorthernRail Liverpool Lime St to Manchester Piccadilly
£28.40 ScotRail Glasgow Queen St to Edinburgh Waverley
= 17,5% lower
That woman Slater needs sacked for the waste of funds with this scheme that will never work another failure for the FM plonker
Yet people will still vote SNP.
If they had any brains they'd know retailers have to raise the price to cover certain costs. It already costs £1 buying it, bring the empty back the company has to give you back 20p. Means you'd be paying 80p so they'll have to raise prices to cover that 20p loss.
Tried this in Northern Ireland already. 30yrs ago. It failed then, it will FAIL now.
This was not in their manifesto. It was part of the ' we will support you ' deal with the Green party. Many SNP members didn't want to join with the Greens but the SNP leadership had to, to stay in power. Harvey & Slater are responsible for this any many other thing that have been forced through in the past couple of years. The SNP may have the majority, but the Greens are running the show. All they need to do is withdraw support and the SNP are out of power.
It’s the start of the finish for the snp/ greens people of scotland wake up we need a people’s party that work for the people not their self indulgence to fill their greedy pockets as we have seen in the last few days🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
No other party offering Independence for Scotland
@@ScottishRoss27 snp dont want independence, who told you that?
Mrs Scottish Ross you still living in Blackpool so the deposit tax won't affect you anyway so get back in your soapbox and shut up
@@gavinmcinally8442
Independence movement is bigger than the Snp
This worked back in the day, when a pound had 240 pennies in it.
Pop and other bottled drinks were delivered to corner shops and off licences by the crate, then at the next delivery, crates of empties were taken back to the factory, washed and re-used. You got a penny or tuppence for your empty, and it wasn't an economic or environmental miracle. It was also unofficial and entirely voluntary for all parties involved, but it made perfect sense back then because glass bottles were cheaper to recover on the delivery rounds and re-use, rather than keep manufacturing endless new bottle stocks. It became a cultural habit when corner shops held sway over the still rare supermarket.
In the here and now, this can't work. Why? Because some will want to make profit from it - not just recover costs. We buy the plastic and aluminium, we pay the local authority to deal with it, and now this bollocks. There's so much plastic about, because the makers don't give a stuff where it goes once its out the door and on its way to Asda.
It worked in the past because we didn't have plastic, and the kids loved to go to the shop after finding bottles on bomb sites and getting the pennies. It can't work now because it requires all makers, importers, distributors and retail outlets to collectively return to glass bottles only with a much higher deposit to make return plausible, and a complete restructuring of the drinks industry to accommodate direct return, re-wash and re-use processes.
Compared to what it supposedly solves, this nonsense actually opens up a dozen or more issues for every outlet that tries to make it work, and most of the issues relate to costs.
And any shithole litter magnet location in Scotland currently festooned in plastic and broken glass, will arguably remain such if this crackpot buffoonery ever gets traction.
Working for you - the Simply Not Plausible party plus their bought-out parliamentary vote-fixing partners, the ever-so-Green-behind-the-gills lapdogs.
Somebody with a bit of commonsense and wise insight.
Bomb sites wtf u on about? They only stopped giving you refund money on ginger bottles about five years ago...
the scheme has been horribly mishandled from the beginning with circularity scotland being more interested for months in having meetings about having meetings.
Remember when we were paid to return bottle decades ago, this is just another tax on top of tax you’re already paying.
If you voted SNP, you only have yourself to blame. Again!😂
Sweden's started in 1984, Iceland's 1989, Norway's 1996, Denmark's 2000
SNP already lost 30.000 members it's as popular as a turd in a swimming pool.
@@ScottishRoss27 be ok when the SNP gets rid of the Greens election time 😅
@@sayithowitis1 Still the largest party by membership
@@sayithowitis1
Nah that partnership works well and has delivered for the people.
Useless is the best thing that could happen to the union. Long live the king
Unions can be exited from or repealed
Also outdated meaningless monarchies can be abolished
@@ScottishRoss27 for a country that believes a man is a woman just because he said so. anythings possible. Dont mean its not a dumb idea .
@@gavinmcinally8442
You mean England? as UKgov accepts overseas gender certificates from 41 overseas countries but discriminates against Scots-Trans people.
What else does UK discriminate against Scots in favour of people from overseas? social security? jobs? housing?
@@ScottishRoss27 you just love being the victim, complete victim mentality 😒
20 p deposit, so why are the prices going up by that much, it's price gauging, profits, at least addicts can clean up all the thrown out ones,
But it's worth it to be ruled by the noble righteous Greens who know what's best for you and the planet.
Serves Scotland right , SNP have made the Scots look like money grabbing thieves and back stabbing people ....
They also get to drive Tesla's that you pay for. So not all bad.
Scottish ross must be a fully paid up member of the snp. Id want a refund 😢
Good idea but drink prices would have to rise due to the sorting taking away and recycling. It did work on the sixties but there were fewer of us around and very little plastic
Vote snp for more tax hikes and juice hikes…..way to go Scotland
Scotland has lower taxes than in rUK
@@ScottishRoss27 here’s engerland tax rate
Band Taxable income Tax rate
Personal Allowance Up to £12,570 0%
Basic rate £12,571 to £50,270 20%
Higher rate £50,271 to £125,140 40%
Additional rate over £125,140 45%
Here’s Scottish….
Allowance Up to £12,570 0%
Starter rate £12,571 to £14,732 19%
Basic rate £14,733 to £25,688 20%
Intermediate rate £25,689 to £43,662 21%
Higher rate £43,663 to £125,140 42%
Top rate over £125,140 47%
@@Truthteller886
Snp/Green ran Scotland Torie ran England
Income Tax Rates 19% 20% 21% 42% 47% 20% 40% 45%
Council Tax National Average £1347 £2065
Water Charges None Directly £448 on average
University Tuition Free to Scots £9250 a year
100% Small Business Rate Relief £15,000 or less £12,000 or less
Road/Bridge Toll Charges None 13 toll charges
Free National Bus Travel Under 21's & at 60 over 65's
Voting Age 16 18
Starting Teacher Salary £31,583 £28,000
Starting Nurse Salary £30,229 £27,055
Starting Police Officer £28,074 £23,556
Starting Train Driver £27,483 £24,304
Personal Care Free Charged
Prescriptions Free £9.65 per item
Eye Tests Free £20 to £25
Dental Care Free to Under 26's Charged
Womens sanitary products Free Trailing it
NHS Parking Charges Free Charged
UK Bedroom Tax Fully Mitigating 500k households victim
Child Poverty Rate 21% 29%
Scottish Baby Box 250k given since 2017 not available
Scottish Child Payment £100 a month not available
Free Childcare 30 hours per week 16 hours per week
Free School Meals Primary 1 to 5 Primary 1 to 2
New Fife National Treatment Centre opened in March
New Isle of Skye Community Hospital opened in 2022
New Aviemore Community Hospital opened in 2022
New Clydebank Health Centre opened in 2022
Greenock Heath & Care Centre opened in 2021
Edinburgh Sick Children's Hospital opened in 2021
Stirling Health & Care Village opened in 2020
East Lothian Community Hospital opened in 2020
Orkney Hospital opened in 2019
Dumfries Royal Infirmary opened in 2018
Ferry Fares (2 adults return)
£42.00 Wightlink Portsmouth to Isle of Wight
£16.80 Calmac Ardrossan to Isle of Arran
= 60% lower
Rail Fares (2 adults open return)
£34.40 NorthernRail Liverpool Lime St to Manchester Piccadilly
£28.40 ScotRail Glasgow Queen St to Edinburgh Waverley
= 17,5% lower
Cross-Border Caledonian Sleeper Rail Service recently nationalised.
ScotRail Nationalised in 2022
Fife Levenmouth rail link in construction
East Linton rail station in East Lothian in construction
Barrhead-Glasgow rail electrification in construction
Motherwell rail station redevelopment in construction
Inverness airport rail station opened in February 2023
Aberdeen rail station redevelopment opened in Dec 2022
Perthshire rail freight hub opened in 2022
Carstairs rail electrification in Lanarkshire completed in 2022
Reston station in Borders opened in 2022
Glasgow rail engineering depot opened in 2022
Kintore rail station in Aberdeenshire opened in 2020
Border Union Chain Bridge Restoration Project nearly finished
Dualling A9 from Perth to Inverness in progress
New Renfrew-Clydebank bridge in progress
Maybole Bypass in Ayrshire opened in 2022
Dalry bypass in Ayrshire opened in 2019
Aberdeen Bypass opened in 2019
£1,3 Billion Queensferry Crossing opened in 2017
@@Truthteller886
Competitor Country by population size
2022 Annual GDP Economic Growth Rate
Scotland Finland
5% 2,1%
Employment Figures Scotland Finland
March 76,5% 2,738 million 72,9% 2,582 million
February 76,6% 2,742 million 71,9% 2,558 million
January 76,1% 2,725 million 73,4% 2,605 million
International Exports in Goods
Scotland Finland
2022 £35,7 Billion 22,9 Billion
2021 £27 Billion 20,5 Billion
2022 Number of Entrants to University
Scots Born Finnish Born
33,880 32,700
Birth Registrations
Scotland Finland Outbreed Finland by
February 3,558 3,236 9%
January 4,165 3,521 15,4%
2022 46,959 44,933 4,3%
Starting Salary Scotland Finland
Teacher £31,584 25,940
Nurse £30,229 25,720
Police Officer £28,074 23,660
Average Monthly Salary
Scotland £2112 Finland 1761
2022 Housing Completions/Starts
Scotland Finland
42,132 41,636
2022 Recorded Crime Stats
Scotland Finland
287,678 473,100
Another reason to go to Berwick for a booze run and now a fizzy drink run, they do know how to hit people in the pocket.
Berwick has had 3 referendums on re-joining Scotland & voted in favour everytime
@@ScottishRoss27 shetland wants to leave Scotland wiv there oil. Lol
@@gavinmcinally8442
1 Trillion compensation to Scotland for selling it.
Independent Scotland is due its 50% share of 1,727,415 km2
British Overseas Territories.
@@ScottishRoss27 no way you believe any of this stuff, tell me, wtf are you smoking.? Sturgeon never wanted independence, thats just what she told the mugs to keep them voting for her.
@@ScottishRoss27 again u posting rubbish that's been debunked so many time u fake Scot troll
The Islamic Scottish State begins. Enjoy.
@Richard Extall
Absolutely, they choose useless Yusaf as the leader, they can now enjoy what they voted for.
Ironic since The Hindu English State began 7 month ago
@@nightowl7459
Was Health Secretary of the Only NHS in the UK to Not have gone on strike,
due to being the best paid in the UK.
@@ScottishRoss27 Sunak be long gone soon then Humza can have the immigrants he wants to work in Scotland sent up Westminster assisted.
@@ScottishRoss27 failed minister how many people in Scotland are having operations in Blackpool.
Why is one in seven waiting for operations in Scotland and the locals unable to get a ambulance.
Would 4 million spent on heroine or 235 million spent on cycle lanes help.
Humza the best thing that could happen to Westminster even in the FM leadership race SNP candidate's highlighted his failures in every job he has had .
How much is car insurance for a motorhome.
Why don't the governments just ban 500ml plastic stlye bottles. That will get rid of a lot of plastic waste.
Would I be right in saying the Scottish Greens have caused more harm per vote than any party in recent memory?
Done great things
SLATER AND HUMZA DONT HAVE THE BOTTLE TO ADMIT THEY EERE WRONG
Why is England, Wales & NI introducing theirs in 2025 if Scotland's is wrong?
Time for the SNP and the greens to go they are going to put small businesses out of business and its not going to stop there moterest next
100% Small Business Rate Relief
Snp ran Scotland premises worth £15,000 or less
Torie ran England premises worth £12,000 or less
Labour ran Wales premises worth £6.000 or less
=
Snp ran Scotland's is worth 20% more than Torie ran England's
Snp ran Scotland's is worth 60% more than Labour ran wales's
Registered Small Businesses
in 2022 251k = Increase of 6,8 percent or 17k
in 2021 234k
Sounds like a way of banning alcohol
Good! I had this when I was a kid and it worked beautifully. They should add £1 to every McDonald’s meal too to pay for all the fucking litter they generate.
They go for the media headline, all image to keep up the facade and hide the rotten practices, image is everything to them even at the cost of ignoring the situation in Scotland, the kids going to school hungry, the kids that have no proper bed to lay on, the kids that cannot go to school because they have to share clothes.
These eejits in the SNP chase the camera for a selfie or paint ferry boats to make them look more complete, painting in windows, the appointment of a person that has failed in every job given to him by Sturgeon, a person that feels hard done by in life many times because of his skin colour, a man that runs to the police at every opportunity shouting out racism is here and the sad thing is he thinks he is good enough to run a country, thank goodness they only put him in charge till the next election, but how much will he squander before then as the children in Scotland suffer, seeing the worse drug and alcohol deaths in the whole of Europe, education and health gone, they see a man that cannot perform.
Seems you have a vendetta
As a outsider I can see the mess more clearly, what happens to Scotland it's downfall will not effect me or mine, but seeing a bunch of dysfunctional people trying to run a country similar population and budget of mine and ruining it is regretful. Got a man for the new bank yet, got a ferry handy or one that once launched will not be so out of date and not pollute more than a diesel vessel of similar size, examples of miss management in the extreme, going to other lands, Turkey no guarantees there for A1 steel, no carbon negative used there, cheap Chinese junk, they are ridiculous baby boxes, a wealthy contact in Edinburgh from home laughed, what a farce gave it to charity shop, wealthy folk do not need nor want this stuff, they have a bed or crib for bub, not a box that Scottish are given to use, whilst mrs murrell wastes millions, waken up my old friend.
@@patrickhouston2610 Where are you from?
@@ScottishRoss27 my old friend finish your previous sentence ( vendetta), explain this word, explain in what context it has to do with myself or anyone that points out the idiocy of SNP and members, in a dictatorship you are not allowed to be critical of the controlling party or person, are you saying Scotland is in a dictatorship, or are you sending out warnings to the odd and sods that laugh and cry at the governing body in Scotland and say so, you should not try to stop free speech !. Because if any organisation makes stuff up after stuff up almost every week then they should be pulled into line, Scotland is not run by uncle Adolf yet, but having such naughty words as liar banned from Scottish parliament is a step towards uncle Adolf type country, what was the rational behind this banning of this word, a quick search and it seems no other country in the world has ever done such a childish thing, too close to home, used too much by opposition, making Scotland out to be the joke country of the world, I know Scotland deserves better, don't you agree ?
@@ScottishRoss27 lmao Ur from Blackpool not Scottish at all
I've been recycling all my glass for years, all without the need for a deposit as my incentive.
I also have the good sense not to vote SNP.😂
Basically a tax on snp voters nice.
Get money back for taking bottles to the new bottle recycling scheme
so not a tax
Scottish republican party hope its worth it Scotland what have they done for you remind me.
Electorate seem to thinkso, having elected them and elected them and elected them
OH God! The cost of Buckfast Tonic wine is going up, that will upset the jocks.
Just a joke lads.
Why the racism?
@@ScottishRoss27 here we go racism for breakfast, dinner and tea. somebody says something you don't like it's racism.
fucking get a life a sense of humour and grow up.
Brew distill your own ..
Make everything unaffordable and dependent on the government
Get money back for taking plastic bottle to the new bottle recycling scheme
@@ScottishRoss27 you'll make better money recycling plastic to build 3D items
@@myRefuge3710
Already do that
@@ScottishRoss27 make a living until you can't
@@myRefuge3710
Latest Employment Figures Unemployment Figures
Scotland 76,5% 2,738 million 3,1% 88k
Slovakia 71,8% 2,623 million 6% 168k
Finland 72,9% 2,582 million 6,8% 186k
Ireland 73,2% 2,574 million 4,2% 112k
Scottish Labour Market Trends March 2023
Datacube Slovakia Labour Force Survey
Stats Finland Labour Force Survey March 2023
Cso Ireland Labour Force Survey
tax the people via products and services and other BS
then introduce a new currecy that makes all products cos penuts to some and a fortune to others.
Stock up on your empty bottles now bruh you can make a fortune soon
Welcome to sharia law step bye step
If it's that bad a scheme then why are my local ALDI store having the equipment installed in their car park right now. What is recognised as a "discount" supermarket but is actually, along with Lidl, a serious competotor for the profiteering "big 4" wouldn't consider being part of this if they thought it would impact detrimentally on the prices charged to their customers
Would you be part of it if it wasn't a law.
@@sayithowitis1 so you would rather the government didn't do anything to reduce the amount of single use plastic, cans and to a smaller extent glass, that finishes up in land fill or strewn across the countryside!
@@drewmclaren3897 perhaps washable bottles
@@sayithowitis1 have you actually looked at what the return scheme is about or is it just a case of SNP bad!!!! Before you make any more commenst please go and do some research into the articles you comment on
@@drewmclaren3897 how many I educate you today.
Left out the part where folk get money back taking bottles to the bottle recycling bit.
Appalling reporting.
He's alive 😅
@@sayithowitis1 ...but none the wiser.
@@sayithowitis1
UK Government are introducing its own scheme in 2025 for England, Wales & Northern Ireland.
UK Government Environment Minister Rebecca Pow said
''This will provide a simple and effective system across England, Wales & Northern Ireland that helps people reduce litter and recycle more easily, even when on the move.''
@@ScottishRoss27 yes nett zero on the way out as well
@@sayithowitis1 Scotland leading the way on net zero