The 28 are detailed positions on the major domestic challenges facing Scotland — including education, health, justice, energy, housing and the defence industry. Each is written as policy analysis, not as a slogan or a list of promises. Together they set out a serious view of what good government in these areas would require.
The 28
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service exists to put trained people and a working appliance at the incident. That is a matter of minutes, of a crew of four or five, and of whether a retained firefighter on an island or in a glen can leave work when the pager sounds. Fire and rescue is fully devolved.
The 28
When a person collapses with a cardiac arrest, a major stroke or catastrophic bleeding, the interval that matters is the one between the 999 answer and effective intervention.
The 28
Policing in Scotland is devolved. Scotland decides on officer numbers, deployment, control rooms, search practices, and most criminal law related to knife crime.
The 28
Scotland already sets the rates and bands on most earned income. It does not set the personal allowance, National Insurance, inheritance tax, corporation tax, VAT, or most capital taxes. Any serious account of tax has to start there.
The 28
This item answers a narrower question than whether people value the NHS. It asks whether the waits, blocked hospital flows, and the gap between stated standards and what patients actually get stem from a lack of Scottish powers or from how those powers have been used.