For many people rumours of a one percent reduction in capital funding across all government departments by the UK government to help increase funding for defence spending may seem a long way away but it might impact on the proposed new Thurso School Complex. It potentially could impact as it might ripple across many projects adding delays and time constraints and therefor push up prices.
If you want to understand the future of the Thurso schools project, you don’t need to look at Edinburgh’s spreadsheets or Holyrood’s deficit forecasts. You only need to walk down Wick High Street.
Time to get real as it is always great to see headlines for a £100million in a schools project in Thurso but we have already got proof that headlines do not build anything. The NHS Highland Health Hubs for Thurso and Wick project is one very real project announced many years ago and still not delivered still at yet another stage so what hope for Thurso schools.
Scotland stands at a crossroads in preparing its young people for adulthood. As the economy becomes increasingly digital, cashless, and complex, the ability to manage money is no longer a soft skill — it is a survival skill.
This video is a short introduction. The war is being finance by debt and nobody in USA was asked not the people or the congress.
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