WHEN was the last time you agreed with a policy advocated by a party you openly disagreed with? I bet that it’s been a while. And to an extent,…
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Too often the policy agenda is shaped by lobbyists with their own interests or by individuals utilising their wealth to skew political discourse in their favour. In a democracy these groups are entitled to advocate for their interests – equally, the public is entitled to know of ideas which are in their interest, and not in the narrow interest of the few.
They have the broad goal of transmitting their associated political parties’ values to society and promoting democracy, with activities focused on politicalAlmost all of their funding comes from the state and, whilst they are associated with a particular political party, they are independent of them, and as such they do not engage in election campaigns for their associated party, even if inevitably there is an overlap of party and foundation membership.
When politicians fail, political space is opened for ideologues and extremists. Equally, there is a wider need for political education in Scottish society. Despite having a Scottish Parliament for nearly 25 years, a significant amount of the electorate aren’t aware of the differences between what is reserved, devolved or a council matter.
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