SCOTTISH Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has said he would be more concerned if policies introduced under the power-sharing agreement with the SNP…
, and achieve a fairer and more equal society at the same time, of course there will be pushback because there will be people who have benefited from the status quo, the harmful status quo that we need to move beyond.
As an example, he said while Scotland offered the “most generous and flexible financial support” for people on energy efficiency and switching to zero emissions heating, billpayers were not seeing the benefits of cheaper renewable electricity because the UK Government has failed to break the link between electricity and wholesaleHe added: “Setting targets is the easy thing for governments to do and actually reaching them is hard. It is going to require substantial change.
When asked about criticism of the Greens coming from within the SNP, he said it had been a turbulent time for the party and it was understandable some of the “iron discipline” it used to be known for was not happening. “You need to distinguish between that kind of argument and those who are simply trying to unravel what is the most progressive political cooperation agreement there has been I think in the history of these islands.”
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