Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

Prescription charges abolished in Scotland, where, as in Wales and Northern Ireland, they still get to live in somewhere that it is recognisably Britain, whereas in England we are the guinea pigs in the never-ending crazy experiments of the think tank teenagers. Roll on electoral reform.

In the meantime, however, how does Scotland or Wales (Northern Ireland less so, I expect) feel about the growing likelihood, and indeed the growing reality, of much of the population being made up of people who, not so much because of this decision as because of various others, have retired there from England in order to live out their days in something resembling the Britain in which they grew up, with the costs duly met by Her Majesty's Exchequer in London?

Lots of useful spending power. But a significant change in the character of society, in both class and age terms. And hardly a boon for the separatist cause.