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From news.gov.scot today:
‘£1 billion for schools. 25% more pupils educated in good or satisfactory buildings since 2007. The Scottish Government will invest a further £1 billion in rebuilding and refurbishing schools, Deputy First Minister John Swinney has announced. The new funding, which will kick in from 2021 when the current school building programme ends, will benefit around 50,000 pupils – in addition to the 60,000 who will see their schools renewed or refurbished by the end of this Parliament. The fund will deliver digitally enabled, low-carbon schools and campuses providing benefits to pupils and the local economy. The design of schools will ensure they are inclusive and welcoming places that meet the needs of all who use them. New investment models to support the scheme will be developed in partnership with COSLA and councils, with decisions on which schools will benefit focused on those in the poorest condition. It is expected that partnership design and development work will begin next year.’
https://news.gov.scot/news/gbp-1-billion-for-schools
This news reinforces an earlier report of greater school building under the SNP administration. In 2016, STV reported:
‘The SNP Scottish Government has built or refurbished twice as many schools as the previous administration, Holyrood researchers have found.’
During the SNP administrations from 2008 to 2015, they built 607 schools while during the Labour administrations from 1999 to 2007, only 308 were built. The data was obtained by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Spice).
https://stv.tv/news/politics/1363964-snp-built-more-schools-than-previous-administration/
Talking-up Scotland 
I believe the photographs provided for this article may be trying to influence me in some way, but I just can’t think how,,,
Anyway, I wouldn’t normally link to a newspaper article, or read one myself for that matter, but here is Nicola Sturgeon writing in the guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/21/britain-deserves-better-brexit-may-peoples-vote
On things Brexit, alternatives to no-deal gloom. Overly optimistic? Maybe. She says there is an ’emerging cross party consensus,,,’ on putting together a proposal that may involve staying in the customs union and single market, or at least something Westminster will have a majority on.
Of course, if this is successful, it is possible the SNP would take some of the credit, and we can’t be having that now, can we, their popularity might increase.
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Doesn’t the one on the left make you want to play with Lego?
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