Edinburgh Evening News - Politics - SSP leader Fox accuses ministers of censorship
NEW Scottish Socialist Party leader Colin Fox has accused the Scottish Executive of censoring debate on his Bill to scrap prescription charges.
A decision by the Scottish Parliament’s business bureau means the Bill will not be debated in the parliament until Christmas - a full two and a half years after it was first lodged.
Mr Fox, a list MSP for the Lothians, claimed the Executive parties, which have a majority of the votes in the bureau, were deliberately delaying the proposed legislation despite widespread public support.
"So much for the idea the parliament is ready to spring into action on new ideas," he said. "This suggests it has all the spring in its step of an extinct dinosaur.
"It means 75,000 people in Scotland will face another year when they will go without medicines they need because they don’t have the money."
Scottish Campaign to Remove All Prescription Charges
