Toni Sword, Author at Our Scottish Future

Create A New Citizens Health Service To Support Our NHS

The NHS is on the verge of collapse this winter. Action is needed now to relieve pressure on our health service.

A Long Road Back But We Can Travel In Hope – Scotland’s Brexit Journey

Comment from Professor David Kerr on the BBC story revealing how NHS leaders are discussing abandoning the founding principles of the service.

Prof David Kerr On BBC NHS Revelations

Comment from Professor David Kerr on the BBC story revealing how NHS leaders are discussing abandoning the founding principles of the service.

UK Should Give £1000 Energy Saving Grants For Families And Firms

Homeowners, renters and businesses should be given grants of up to £1000 each to help them insulate their homes and cut energy usage over the coming years.

Crisis-Hit Scottish NHS Needs ‘Pandemic-Style’ Plan This Winter

A pandemic-style plan is needed to protect the NHS this winter, a report by Our Scottish Future says. Ministers should implement a series of emergency measures to protect the NHS from potential collapse – and where possibly, do so on a “four nations” basis, with England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Wishful Thinking and Economic Policy

Wishful thinking and economic policy don’t mix. Just ask Liz Truss, and Kwasi Kwarteng. Wishful thinking is all over the SNP’s latest economic argument for Scottish independence as well, only much more of it.

Growth Plan Needed to Avert £2bn Black Hole

Scotland urgently needs a new long-term plan for growth or else governments will be forced to impose increasingly higher taxes on a permanent basis, a new report for Our Scottish Future warns today.

Kirsty McNeill Named As New Our Scottish Future Advisory Board Chair

Anti-poverty campaigner Kirsty McNeill has today been named as the chair of Our Scottish Future’s new Advisory Board.

3 Failures of Cooperation – And How Collaboration Can Save The Future

Recently our politics has been defined by opposition, with political combat between countries, parties and individuals becoming the norm. This lack of political cooperation at all levels benefits no one, and we are now seeing the results play out with devastating consequences.

Cooperation not Competition – Building a Better Britain

Today our country needs leaders whose eyes are fixed on the future. And cooperation is the way of the future. With global problems like pandemics and climate change that cannot be solved by nation states on their own and with every country’s independence limited by their interdependence, nationalism is yesterday’s response to today’s challenges. The new Prime Minister should put constructive cooperation between our four nations at the heart of their vision for a British future.