It should be pointed out that the winter fuel benefit system in Scotland was to be the fairest in the U.K. Pension Age Winter Heating Payment was designed via consultation with many stakeholder groups.

....our history is not the argument for our future but a warning for how it can go wrong for so many and the consequences and missed opportunities of behaving in the same way

Only thing to learn from this, is decisions by the few aimed at benefiting the few fail, it must drive a future where opportunity and success has less barriers for the residents of an independent scotland..